Israeli Occupation Forces Injure 7 Palestinians, Including Two Children, Kidnap 18, Invade Several Cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Six Palestinians wounded in IOF gunfire in Jenin refugee camp

[ 11/09/2007 - 05:31 PM ]

JENIN, (PIC)-- 

Six Palestinian citizens were wounded on Tuesday including two children when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burst into the Jenin refugee camp and fired at a building in which they claim a number of resistance activists were hiding.

Eyewitnesses said that an IOF unit was encircling the house at the outskirts of the camp since early morning hours and clashed with resistance fighters.

They added that young men threw stones at the invading troops, who retaliated by firing live bullets and sonic bombs wounding six of them.

IOF troops arrested a Palestinian youth in the camp after breaking into his home.

Other IOF units stormed the Qabatia town west of Jenin and engaged resistance elements.

Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip the armed wing of Hamas Movement on Tuesday morning fired five mortar shells at a gathering for IOF armored vehicles in Karm Abu Salem crossing south of the Strip.

The armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, had shelled the same position two hours earlier with 8 mortar shells. It said that both attacks were in response to IOF crimes and promised more painful strikes if the IOF persisted in its aggressions against the Palestinian people.

PRC fighter injured in clashes with invading Israeli occupation forces in Gaza 

Date: 12 / 09 / 2007 Time: 13:37

Gaza – Ma'an – 

The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, claimed on Wednesday that one of their fighters was injured in armed confrontations with invading Israeli occupation  troops in the northern Gaza Strip.

Hamas fighters fire nine projectiles at Israel targets bordering Gaza

Date: 12 / 09 / 2007 Time: 11:38

Gaza – Ma'an – 

The military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, launched six homemade projectiles at the Israeli military base near Sufa Crossing, between Israel and southern Gaza, on Wednesday morning.

The Qassam Brigades issued a statement declaring the operation a reprisal for Israeli aggression towards Palestinians.

The Qassam Brigades on Wednesday also claimed responsibility for launching three mortar shells at the Israeli-controlled Kisufim Crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Islamic Jihad leaders and 18 other Palestinians in the West Bank 

Date: 12 / 09 / 2007 Time: 10:27

Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

The Israeli interior intelligence service, Shabak (meaning the Net in Arabic) on Wednesday revealed that Israeli occupation forces seized Islamic Jihad leader, Yasser Mohamed Dara'awi, and one of his assistants, Osama Ibrahim Dara'awi.

The two Islamic Jihad members were apprehended on Sunday.

Shabak alleged that the two men were members of a cell that committed a series of shooting operations, targeting Israeli locations throughout the West Bank. Shabak also claimed that the cell planned to commit operations inside Israel.

Detentions

The Israeli military seized eighteen Palestinians from Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah and Hebron, in the West Bank, on Wednesday morning.

Israeli forces detained the son of incarcerated PLC member Hamed Betawe, Ahmed Hamed Betawe, aged 27.

Palestinian security sources told Ma'an that the Israeli military stormed Nablus city centre and ransacked several homes. The soldiers then seized Ahmed Hamed Betawe, Wissam Najeeb Bastamy, aged 24, Nitham Sawafta, aged 34, and Ayman Zuhde Khurma, aged 32.

Hebron

Israeli forces abducted six Palestinians on Wednesday morning in Hebron.

The Israeli military stormed Taffuh, west of Hebron, and began house-to-house inspections before seizing five members of the Zrikat family.

The soldiers detained member of the Palestinian security services, Ayman Abdullah Zrikat, aged 30, Maher Shaker Zrikat, aged 35, Ramadan Muhammed Zrikat, aged 25, Azmy Azzam Zrikat, 35, and Shaher Abdel Zrikat, aged 33.

The Israeli troops also abducted Muhammed Khalel Yaghmoor, aged 22, from his shop in Hebron city centre.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said that the Israeli forces have abducted 900 Palestinians from Hebron in 2007.

Tulkarem

Israeli forces on Wednesday apprehended Palestinian citizen, Muhammad Ajjouli, aged 32, after storming his home in Qaffin, near Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian security sources stated that the Israeli forces raided Ajjouli's home and demolished its contents before taking him to an undisclosed destination.

Ma'an's correspondent in the area revealed that the Israeli forces have recently tightened the existing siege on Tulkarem district. The movement of Palestinians through checkpoints to the south and east of Tulkarem has been severely restricted.

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The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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