Israeli occupation forces kidnap an Imam and his three sons near Hebron, four in northern Gaza Strip, bulldoze cultivated lands

Israeli occupation forces invade northern Gaza – four kidnapped 

Saturday September 15, 2007 12:27 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation forces launched an invasion of the Beit Hanoun and Jabalia areas of northern Gaza in the early hours of Saturday morning, razing large tracts of Palestinian land and carrying out a series of abductions.

In Beit Hanoun, Israeli occupation military vehicles stormed the area, causing damage to agricultural land and kidnapping four Palestinians. Those kidnapped have yet to be identified. They have been taken to an unnamed detention center.

Israeli occupation forces shelled the area to the east of Jabalia; there are reports of injuries or damage.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap an Imam and his three sons near Hebron 

Date: 14 / 09 / 2007 Time: 21:13

Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped an Imam and his three sons in a raid in the Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday.

According to the Imam's daughter, Najla Asfour, eight Israeli occupation soldiers ransacked the family's house, kidnapping 60 year old Shaikh Omran Asfour, and three of his sons. The sons were identified as Amjad, an accountant at the Qatar Charitable Association, Ayman, a nurse at Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and Alaa, an officer in the Palestinian Preventive Security services.

The four abductees were taken to an unknown location. The Israeli occupation forces said they were still searching for the fourth son.

IOFs storm Nablus, Rafah and bulldoze cultivated lands

[ 15/09/2007 - 11:44 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)-- 

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) advanced into Rafah district, south of the Gaza Strip, and bulldozed Palestinian cultivated lands at an early hour on Saturday while other units stormed Nablus in the West Bank and broke into a number of homes.

Local sources told PIC correspondent in Rafah that the IOFs mounting armored vehicles and escorting bulldozers and backed by choppers and drones advanced 700 meters inside Shoka village east of Rafah.

They said that the soldiers burst into a number of civilian homes, detained the inhabitants while others searched the area and bulldozed land lots in search of alleged tunnels.

In Nablus, local sources said that the invasion forces ransacked a number of civilian homes but no arrests were reported.

In retaliation to the IOF incursions and crimes, Palestinian resistance fighters fired at and wounded two Israeli settlers on Friday east of Qalqilia city in the West Bank.

Hebrew media reported the attack, adding that the two Israelis were in their car when the attack took place and were rushed to hospital.

In the Gaza Strip, the Quds Brigades, armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, detonated two explosive devices in an IOF foot patrol north of Beit Hanoun to the north of the Strip on Saturday.

 

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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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