Israeli occupation forces invade northern Gaza Strip
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  10:35

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Gaza – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation tanks, jeeps, and bulldozers entered the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia on Sunday morning amid heavy gunfire, witnesses said.

Sources on the ground in Jabalia said Israeli occupation ground forces, with helicopters overhead, had crossed at least 500 meters past the border wall into the Gaza Strip.

This is an ongoing incursion.

Palestinian military groups engage Israeli occupation forces in Gaza, fire projectiles
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  10:42
Gaza - Ma'an -

The military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades said on Saturday evening that their fighters clashed with an undercover Israeli occupation force that infiltrated Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

They explained in a statement that an undercover Israeli occupation force was discovered after it entered the Al-Farta area, east of Beit Hanoun.

Separately the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, claimed responsibility on Sunday morning for firing two homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Sderot, bordering Beit Hanoun.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Palestinians near Ramallah
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  10:19
Bethlehem - Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces on Sunday kidnapped two Palestinians from Al-Jalazun refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli sources said. The two Palestinians were taken to interrogation centers.

Israeli occupation forces raid Nablus
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  10:06
Nablus - Ma'an -

More than 16 Israeli occupation military vehicles raided areas around the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday evening, witnesses said.

Witnesses also reported seeing Israeli occupation undercover forces in a Palestinian-plated car in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.

Israeli occupation troops stationed themselves in several areas in Balata and in the city of Nablus.

Palestinian security sources say Israeli occupation forces are expected to launch a large-scale incursion into Nablus soon.

Israeli occupation illegal settlers invade Palestinians' fields near Nablus
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  13:58
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation illegal settlers attacked Palestinians in fields near the village of Tal, west of the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, witnesses said.

Umar Ishtiya, the chair of the village's local council, said that more than 40 heavily-armed settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilad invaded the fields, firing in the air and throwing stones at passersby.

Settlers from Gilad also attacked Palestinians' fields last week, uprooting their trees, Ishtiya said.

Israeli occupation forces invade Jenin, raid Palestinian houses
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  11:32
Jenin – Ma'an –

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin, neighboring Jenin refugee camp, and two nearby villages on Sunday morning, witnesses said.

Israeli troops ransacked home of Afif Jalilin Jenin refugee camp, looking for his son Zakariya, who is wanted by the Israeli occupation intelligence services. The soldiers forced the Jalil family and their neighbors into the street while Israeli occupation troops searched their homes interrogated them.

Other witnesses said that Israeli troops stormed the villages of Zububa and Rummana, conducting house-to-house searches.

Separately, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, said their fighters fired at an Israeli occupation patrol that was setting up a checkpoint at the entrance of the village of Misliya, near Jenin.

Israeli occupation forces lay siege to West Bank village
Date: 13 / 04 / 2008  Time:  10:51
Nablus - Ma'an -

Israeli forces sealed all entrances to the West Bank village of Beita, south of the city of Nablus, with massive piles of dirt and rocks on Sunday night, witnesses said.

Residents of the village told Ma'an that Israeli occupation soldiers are imprisoning residents inside the village. Israeli occupation soldiers are keeping watch at all the roads and dirt tracks out of the village, ensuring that no one leaves.

Hours before the closure, an Israeli illegal settler's car came under fire on a road near Beita.