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Israeli occupation forces invade West Bank refugee camps, villages, kidnap 16 Palestinians, one soldier wounded 

Israeli occupation forces invade West Bank refugee camps, one soldier wounded

Date: 29 / 10 / 2007 Time: 10:48

Nablus – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces invaded two refugee camps near the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday. Palestinian fighters wounded one Israeli soldier.

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed that their fighters injured the Israeli occupation soldier during fighting in Ein Beit El-Ma refugee camp. Israeli sources confirmed that one soldier was wounded in the neck and evacuated to Israel for treatment.

Israeli occupation forces bombed a shop (a store) in Balata refugee camp, kidnapping the owner and two others. Israeli occupation forces later withdrew from the area.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 13 Palestinians in West Bank raids 

Date: 29 / 10 / 2007 Time: 10:40

Ramallah – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 13 Palestinians in villages around the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

A member of the municipal council in the village of Al-Zaytuna and others in the villages of Abu Shukhaidim and Al-Mazra'a Al-Qibliya were detained in the series of raids.

IOF soldiers kidnap 12 Palestinians for participating in peaceful march

[ 29/10/2007 - 08:41 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- 

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday kidnapped 12 Palestinian citizens from two villages north of Ramallah city in the West Bank for participation in a peaceful march against confiscation of their lands.

Local sources said that the IOF campaign of arrests in Al-Mazra'a Gharbiya and Abu Shukhaidem villages included three children, three brothers, a father and his son and the municipality chairman and one of its members.

The IOF charged the kidnapped with participation in a march organized to protest the confiscation of the villagers' cultivated lands to expand a nearby Jewish settlement.

Eyewitnesses said that the protestors marched to their usurped lands on Friday and damaged the Jewish settlers' grape vines that were planted there.

 


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