Israeli Occupation Forces Close Beita, Terroize Residients of Silwad, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarem, Kidnap 2 Palestinians

Beita village under Israeli closure after Israeli bus attack
Date: 11 / 04 / 2008 Time: 12:04
Nablus – Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces imposed a total closure on the village of Beita south of Nablus since the early hours of Friday morning after an Israeli vehicle was shot at on Thursday.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's Nablus correspondent that Israeli military bulldozers have closed the main entrance to the village with dirt mounds and erected a number of military checkpoints in the area around the village.

Witnesses added that Israeli troops attacked Palestinian vehicles that tried to bypass the checkpoint by using other roads out of the village. People trying to do so were detained.

This Israeli radio reported this morning that an Israeli bus was shot at by Palestinian gunmen at a crossroads near Beita. No one was injured.

Israeli occupation forces storm Silwad, kidnap Palestinian
Date: 11 / 04 / 2008 Time: 11:44
Jerusalem –

Ma'an - Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian from the town of Silwad north-east of Jerusalem in the early hours of Friday.

Local sources said that several Israeli occupation military vehicles entered the town at 1:30am and arrested 23-year-old Amr Ahmed Hamid after raiding his house and destroying its contents. He was transferred to an unknown destination.

The sources said that the Israeli occupation forces had searched several houses in the area.

The same sources said that the army handed over a number of citizens to the Israeli intelligence.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap Medical Relief volunteer
Date: 11 / 04 / 2008 Time: 11:19
Bethlehem – Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped Qassem Ali Al-Qadi a volunteer in the Palestinian Medical Relief from Sourif, north of Hebron claiming he had been spotted too close to the separation wall.

Medical Relief said an Israeli occupation force raided the town of Sourif and searched Al-Qadi's house before arresting him. He was taken to an unknown destination.

Israeli occupation forces come under attack in West Bank
Date: 11 / 04 / 2008 Time: 11:14
Bethlehem – Ma'an -

An Israeli occupation force was attacked with explosive devices in the city of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank on Friday at dawn. There are no reports of any injuries.

Israeli sources also said that Palestinian resistance fighters threw a number of bombs and inflammable bottles at the Israeli occupation force that was on a "security activity" in Jenin in the northern West Bank. No injuries were reported.

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