Israeli occupation forces Invade Hebron and Al-Maghazi, terrorizing and kidnapping Palestinian residents 

Israeli occupation forces kidnap three Palestinians in Hebron 

Thursday September 13, 2007 13:20 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped three Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in the early hours of Thursday morning during a number of separate operations.

The Prisoner's Society in Hebron reported that soldiers broke into the homes of those abducted, confiscating items of property. The Israeli occupation army claiming they were searching for illegal materials.

Security sources reported that the abducted Palestinians who were later identified as Mustafa Al-Qawasmi, Ibrahim Amer and Adnan Abu Turky were transferred to unnamed detention centers.

IOFs invade Al-Maghazi refugee camp, bulldoze vast area

[ 12/09/2007 - 09:12 PM ]

MAGHAZI, (PIC)-- 

A large number of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting armored vehicles and bulldozers advanced on Wednesday morning to the east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip and bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian citizens' lands, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources confirmed that the IOF troops kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens after storming one of the houses and bulldozed a wide range of olive trees, adding that Israeli military reinforcements are still reaching the area from the east of the Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, IOF troops at a late hour Tuesday encircled the house of Palestinian MP Nizar Ramadan, who is imprisoned in Israeli jails, then stormed and ransacked his house at an early hour on Wednesday before kidnapping his son Montaser, 21, in addition to other 11 Palestinians in Al-Khalil city.

Ramadan's family reported that the IOF troops also confiscated three mobile phones and two personal computers used by Ramadan's children for their school studies, pointing out that the IOF troops violently broke into the house and caused panic amongst the children.

The IOF troops also kidnapped at dawn Wednesday three Palestinian citizens from the Nablus city including the son of the imprisoned MP Sheikh Hamed Betawi, a member of the parliamentary change and reform bloc, after storming and ransacking a number of homes in the city, the PIC reporter stated.

The PIC reporter also said that the IOF troops established on Wednesday morning a barrier checkpoint at the only entrance of Merdah town from the northern side and searched whoever enters and leaves the town.

The IOF troops had imposed strict siege on the Merdah town where it is surrounded by barbed wires from all sides and there is an iron gate to the east of the town that is controlled by the IOF troops.

In another development, Sheikh Hijazi Abu Sneineh, the supervisor of the Ibrahimi Mosque compound in Al-Khlil city, southern West Bank, underlined that the IOA decided the closure of the mosque for five days as from Thursday, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, at the pretext that there are Jewish festivals to be held during those five days.

In retaliation to the Israeli ongoing atrocities against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced in a communiqué received by the PIC that it fired at an early hour Wednesday six mortar shells on the Israeli Soufa military outpost, southern Gaza Strip.

The same armed wing also on Wednesday fired three mortar shells at the IOF military post in Kissufim in central Gaza.

Israeli occupation government to enforce an all-inclusive closure on Gaza and the West Bank for next two weeks 

Wednesday September 12, 2007 13:00 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

The Israeli occupation government will impose a comprehensive military closure on the Gaza Strip and West Bank, beginning Tuesday midnight and extending to next Sunday, as Israelis celebrate the Jewish New Year, "Rosh Hashanah".

Israeli media sources reported that Israel will bar the movement of Palestinians into Israel, with exceptions for humanitarian cases, employees in the health system, lawyers, teachers, clerics, and 1,600 Palestinians who are working as olive-pickers in Israeli territory.

The sources added that Erez border crossing will only be opened in the early hours of the morning, and only for humanitarian cases.

 

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Note to Readers:

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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