Israeli invasions of Qabatia and Gaza, air strikes, causing injuries and  widespread destruction, abduction of 14 civilians

Israeli occupation forces invade Gaza from the north and south, cause widespread destruction and abduct local citizens 

Date: 10 / 06 / 2007 Time: 10:54

Rafah - Ma'an - 

Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces, which penetrated Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, early on Sunday morning, have since withdrawn.

The sources confirmed in a press statement that the operation, launched by the Israeli military, was conducted amidst intensive gunfire and caused vast destruction to local Palestinian farms and homes, but no casualties were reported.

The Israeli army also concluded the invasion of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, after bulldozing the land in the area and launching a huge arrest campaign.

Security sources said that the Israeli soldiers held 300 Palestinians between the ages of 16 and 40; 14 of whom were abducted by the Israeli forces and taken to an unknown destination.

In a telephone call with Ma'an, Palestinian citizen, Hiba Harb, said that the Israeli soldiers raided her home and attacked her family members. Each family member was beaten by the soldiers, before they were forced into one room and banned from leaving for several hours.

Harb added that the soldiers ransacked the house and stole money and gold.

She also stated that the soldiers gathered more than fifty young men in her house before transporting them to an unknown direction.

The sources said that the Israel forces left the area at 1am, after a 24 hour incursion.

Israeli occupation troops carry a large-scale offensive in Qabatia 

Sunday June 10, 2007 01:23 by IMEMC Staff - Translated by Sa'ed Bannoura - IMEMC saed at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation soldiers carried on Friday night after midnight and on Saturday at dawn a large-scale military offensive into Qabatia town, near the northern west Bank city of Jenin and broke into several houses, including the house of two fighters, members of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.

Um Yousuf [the mother of Yousuf] stated that Israeli occupation soldiers broke into her house searching for her son Abdul-Fattah Khuzeimiyya, searched and ransacked the house three times between 2 a.m and 10 a.m.

She stated the Israeli occupation intelligence officers threatened to punish her and her family if her son, one of the Islamic Jihad fighters, does not surrender.

The mother added that she saw dozens of soldiers surrounding the house from all directions and used lowed speakers demanding the family to leave it or the army will demolish it over them.

She opened the door and one of the soldiers told her that everybody should leave the house immediately.

Later on, the Israeli occupation army searched the house, causing considerable damage, and threatened to kill Abdul-Fattah is he does not surrender.

She also said that she soldiers fired inside the house and repeatedly searched it as different units kept arriving and searching it.

After several hours of searching and threats, Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped one of the sons identified as Ali, 30, and took him to an unknown destination.

When the family was finally allowed back into their home, they found their furniture and belongings scattered everywhere as the soldiers ransacked it for several hours.

Also, Israeli occupation soldiers broke into the house of Naji Nazzal, also believed to be a member of the Islamic Jihad, and searched as well as searching several surrounding houses.

Israeli occupation soldiers topped several houses and used them as military posts and monitoring towers as the forces broke into dozens of houses.

The mother of Naji stated that soldiers used loud speakers ordering the family out, and as the family left their home dozens of soldiers were lined-up in front of it and around it and forced the family members against the wall.

After the family was forced out, soldiers fired sound bombs into it and used military dogs while searching it and ransacking its property.

Israeli occupation soldiers interrogated several family members and compared their identity card numbers with lists containing identity card numbers of wanted fighters.

The family was interrogated for more than five hours, and one of its members, identified as Ahmad, was kidnapped and taken to an unknown detonation.

Israeli fighter jets launch three air strikes over Gaza causing vast destruction and horror among civilians Date: 10 / 06 / 2007 Time: 09:27

Gaza – Ma'an – 

Israeli warplanes launched three air strikes over three locations of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening.

One of the strikes targeted an Islamic Jihad research centre, another struck a blacksmith's workshop in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City and the third hit shops near Karama towers in northern Gaza City.

Ma'an's correspondent reported that "the attacks resulted in the demolition of the targets, as well as leaving vast destruction and mess in the area. The horror amongst the women, children and elderly in the area was profound."

The strikes were launched a few hours after Palestinian fighters attacked an Israeli military base in Kisufim.

Israeli Air Raids on Gaza Left 6 Citizens Wounded

GAZA, June 10, 2007, (WAFA)-

At least six citizens were wounded Sunday pre-dawn as Israeli warplanes bombarded three sites in Gaza city, hospital sources said.

Al-Shifa hospital sources told WAFA that three citizens were wounded when Israeli jet-fighters struck a workshop in al-Shiakh Redwan in Gaza city.

The sources added that two others were wounded due to Israeli air raid on al-Karama residential buildings and the other was wounded when Israeli warplanes bombarded Palestine Center for Studies and Researches, west Gaza city.

M.H.(09:50 P)(06:50 GMT)

PCSR Denounces Israeli Crime on its Site

GAZA, June 10, 2007, (WAFA)-Palestine Center for Studies and Research (PCSR) denounced on Sunday the Israeli crime and bombardment on the Center.

In a press release, the Center said that such crime comes in the framework of targeting centers that contribute to the enrichment of intellectual awareness, and that would affect and expose the crimes of the occupation and the idea of its colonial and racial history.

The Center for Palestine Research and Studies in Gaza was exposed, at dawn today, to Israeli barbaric bombing with two missiles that led to its complete destruction.

M.H.(10:00 P)(07:00 GMT)