Israeli Occupation Forces Demolish a Palestinian Home in Occupied East Jerusalem

IOF troops demolish citizen's home

[ 18/07/2007 - 10:55 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- 

Reinforced Israeli occupation special forces along with policemen under direct orders from the IOA on Tuesday demolished a one-year-old house owned by Nader Sawaf, 40, in the Christian neighborhood in the old city of occupied Jerusalem at the pretext that it was built without permit.

In another development, the IOF troops has tightened its procedures on Tuesday at Hawarah military checkpoint and other checkpoints surrounding Nablus city, northern West Bank at the pretext of finding an explosive belt with a Palestinian citizen, who reportedly escaped.

Witnesses confirmed that the IOF troops established several mobile barriers at the entrances to villages and the northern areas surrounding Nablus.

Three military armored vehicles, on Monday midnight, raided the northern West Bank city of Nablus and repeated the raid at an early hour Tuesday without any reported arrests.

In the same context, the IOF troops stormed the Deir Al Hatab village to the east of Nablus, amid heavy barrages of fire, and sonic and light bombs; then stormed a number of the Palestinian villagers' houses there.

In the context of retaliations to the Israeli policy of daily incursions, kidnappings and assassinations, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for firing three locally made rockets on Sderot settlement on Tuesday inflicting material damage in addition to firing at a late hour Monday a Quds-2 home-made rocket at a military site in Karm Abu Salem crossing to the east of Rafah, in southern Gaza, and another rocket on Tuesday morning at the Sderot settlement.

The same armed wing also took the credit for firing three Quds-3 missiles at Miftahim settlement east of the Gaza Strip and hitting three IOF soldiers who were maintaining the separation fence near Kissufim crossing.

The AMB, armed wing of Fatah, said that one of its units blasted an explosive device in an IOF foot patrol east of Beit Hanun, north of Gaza, on Tuesday and engaged the soldiers.

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