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3 Palestinians, Including Two Children, Killed, 15 Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces in their Continuous Aggression on the Palestinian People

Israeli Bulldozers Raze Agricultural Lands in Bethlehem

HEBRON, November 11, 2007 (WAFA) - 

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) razed Sunday large tracts of agricultural lands in Bethlehem, local sources reported.

The sources said that Israeli bulldozers, backed by troops, razed agricultural lands to annex them to Israeli colonies.

IOF Wounds citizen, Arrests 3 Others in Hebron

HEBRON, November 11, 2007 (WAFA) - 

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded a citizen and arrested tree others in the West Bank city of Hebron, witnesses said.

Local witnesses said that Israeli occupation soldiers attacked a march commemorating the third anniversary of Late president Yasser Arafat’s death and opened fire at the participants.

Medical sources said one citizen was shot in the leg with a rubber coated metal bullet and was hospitalized.

Three killed in Gaza Strip Saturday 

November 10, 2007 22:26 by Wisam Afeefa - IMEMC

Palestinian medical sources on Saturday evening reported that three Palestinians, two of them children, had been killed in the Gaza Strip during the course of the day.

Of those killed, one is thought to have been a member of a Palestinian resistance faction. The identity of the man remains unknown.

Later in the afternoon, two children, both brothers, were shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces invading the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The two children were identified as Jihad Nabahen, 16, and his brother Ibrahim, 17.

Elsewhere, two people, including one physician, were seriously injured in an Israeli missile strike targeting an area east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The physician, Waheed Saleh, 47, was seriously injured after the army targeted his vehicle with one missile.

Translated by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

Israeli occupation forces invade northern West Bank towns 

Date: 11 / 11 / 2007 Time: 11:27

(Ma'anImages) Jenin – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces invaded the city of Jenin and the town of Qabatya in the northern West Bank on Sunday morning.

Ma'an's correspondent said several Israeli occupation military vehicles invaded Jenin firing at Palestinian homes. No casualties have been reported.

In Qabatia, seven Israeli military vehicles entered the western neighbourhood storming several homes under the pretext of searching for 'wanted' activists.

On Saturday evening, Israeli forces stormed Tubas and Ya'bad, also in the northern West Bank. They fired gunshots and sonic bombs at Palestinian homes. Clashes erupted between the invading Israeli occupation forces and the Palestinian youth who pelted the Israeli vehicles with stones and empty bottles.

Palestinian military wings launch projectiles at Israeli targets 

Date: 11 / 11 / 2007 Time: 11:14

Gaza – Ma'an – 

Three Palestinian military wings claimed to have launched homemade projectiles at Israeli targets bordering the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.

The Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades said they launched a projectile at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, while the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An- Nasser Brigades, said they launched two projectiles at Sderot in Western Negev. Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed to have launched three homemade projectiles at the Israeli Erez crossing and a Kibutz called Netiv Ha'asara.

Israeli occupation forces raid West Bank towns at dawn, kidnap 12 Palestinians 

Date: 09 / 11 / 2007 Time: 11:51

Bethlehem - Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces seized 12 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, including three from the city of Bethlehem early on Friday morning, Palestinian security sources said.

Soldiers detained thiry-nine-year-old school teacher Abdullah Subaih from the village of Al-Khader, neighboring Bethlehem.

In Al-Azza refugee camp, Israeli forces abducted eighteen-year-old Imad Nashash.

Twenty-two-year old Bethlehem resident Jad Shatarat was arrested at the Allenby bridge, on the border between the West Bank and Jordan, the sources said.

Israeli occupation forces also conducted raids in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron.

Al-Quds Brigades respond to Israeli assault on Gaza

Date: 09 / 11 / 2007 Time: 10:32

aza – Ma'an – 

Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility Thursday evening for launching two homemade projectiles at the Israeli towns of Sderot and Kfar Aza, both bordering the Gaza Stip.

The Al-Quds Brigades claimed that Israeli authorities had "admitted to material damage in a house garden in Kfar Aza."

Separately, the Al-Quds Brigades claimed that their fighters ambushed an undercover Israeli force in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. They claimed to have detonated a 70-kilogram bomb and fought with the Israeli soldiers for 20 minutes.

 


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