Israeli occupation forces storm several West Bank Towns, Kidnap 20 Palestinians, Settlers Attack Farmers

Scores Arrested by Israeli Soldiers in WB & GS

RAMALLAH-GAZA, October 16, 2007 (WAFA)-

At least twenty citizens were kidnapped on Tuesday by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the West Bank(WB)city of Hebron, witnesses said.

They told WAFA that Israeli soldiers stormed, amid intensive fire shooting, the city and its nearby villages and camps and kidnapped 17 citizens, leading them into an unknown location.

In the Gaza Strip (GS), Israeli occupation soldiers stormed Johr al-Deek area, launched a search campaign and kidnapped scores of citizens, leading them into an unknown spot, locals said.

IOF troops kidnap 14 Palestinians in the West Bank, demolish home of prisoner

[ 16/10/2007 - 08:44 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at least 14 Palestinian young men in various parts of the West Bank, the arrests were mostly concentrated in the northern West Bank.

The IOFs also demolished the home of a Palestinian prisoner in Qalqilya after ransacking it. The IOF troops which raided the northern West Bank city Monday evening withdrew Tuesday at dawn after demolishing the said house and wounding a Palestinian man in the neck.

IOFs also raided the Jenin refugee camp at dawn Tuesday, ransacked a number of homes and arrested one Palestinian man.

The occupation forces also raided the village of Qabalan at dawn Tusday to south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and arrested 4 Hamas supporters.

This is in addition to six Palestinians arrested in Nablus on Tuesday; one of them in the Ras al-Ain neighbourhood, two in the Askar refugee camp east of the city and three in Hawwara to the south east of the city.

The IOFs also killed two Palestinians in Nablus during the raid, one of them a 70 year old Palestinian man.

In the southern West Bank, the IOFs kidnapped two Palestinians on Tuesday, one in al-Khalil city and the other in nearby Yatta.

On Monday it was reported that one Palestinian man was kidnapped near the Ibrahimi mosque in al-Khalil city. Occupation military sources claimed that the young man is an Islamic Jihad activist and that he had a knife on him.

Israeli occupation forces storm village east of Nablus; ten arrested near Hebron

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 10:35

Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces stormed the northern West Bank village of Qabalan south east of Nablus on Tuesday morning, arresting four Hamas affiliates, Hamas sources told Ma'an's reporter.

In a separate campaign in the town of Beit Ummar north of Hebron in the southern West Bank, the Israeli forces arrested more than ten Palestinian citizens.

Israeli occupation forces detain Palestinian citizens in Qalqilya and Jenin

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 14:37

Qalqilia – Ma'an –

Palestinian citizen Adham Khadraj was kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning in Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, Ma'an's reporter said.

Israeli forces also demolished a home belonging to Bashir Khadraj, a Palestinian from the same family who was kidnapped a month ago at the Allenby crossing en route from Jordan.

Also on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces also invaded Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank and the eastern neighbourhood of the city of Jenin in addition to the town of Anza in the south west of Jenin district, Ma'an's reporter said.

Palestinian security sources said that the invading Israeli forces kidnapped a Palestinian from Jenin refugee camp after house to house inspections.

Palestinian farmer severely wounded in Israeli settler attack

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 15:30

Nablus – Ma'an –

A Palestinian farmer was seriously injured on Tuesday afternoon when a group of Israeli settlers from Yizhar settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked him while he attempted to harvest olives from one of his fields.

Palestinian medical sources stated that thirty-five-year-old Abdul Fattah Hindiyya, from the northern West Bank village of Tell, was wounded in his head after being pelted with stones.

Prisoners' Association condemns Israeli raids in Hebron

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 18:57

Hebron – Ma'an –

Head of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Prisoners' Association Amjad Najjar on Tuesday condemned the Israeli occupation forces invasion of the village of Safa, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in which eleven Palestinians were seized.

Najjar stated that more than forty local citizens have been seized in the Hebron district during the month of October.

In addition, several families have been denied visits to their incarcerated relatives, said Najjar, on the pretext of 'security' reasons.

The prisoners have threatened hunger strikes if the situation does not change, said Najjar.

Female political prisoners detained in terrible conditions in Israeli occupation jails

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 13:21

Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Head of female Palestinian political prisoners in the Detainees Centre for Studies Sima Anbas said on Tuesday that the administration of Ramla prison transferred female prisoner Amna Muna to a cell close to detainees who suffer from dangerous infectious diseases.

Anbas said that Muna is suffering terribly after being moved close to prisoners with diseases such as tuberculosis and scabies.

Muna appealed to her family to campaign for lawyers to visit her and witness her conditions. She also appealed to the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli authorities to release her from solitary confinement.

Director of the Detainees Centre Ra'fat Hamduna, who has served 15 years in Israeli occupation jails, said that the female detainees at Telmond prison, near Hadareim, are suffering from malnutrition after being served rotten food.

Hamduna also revealed that the prisoners are frequently subjected to "provocative" inspections, harassed and insulted. The prisoners were not allowed to take the Palestinian general secondary exam, and were refused new clothes and other items sent by their families.

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