Explosive left by the Israeli occupation army during training kills one child in southern Hebron Hills

Sunday April 13, 2008 08:13 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian sources reported on Saturday that the body of a 16-year old Palestinian child was found two days ago in Kibbutz Hatzarim area, in the southern Hebron Hills. The leg of the child was amputated, and the child bled to death, after an explosive left by the army detonated near him as he was herding sheep in the area.

The body of the child was moved to a forensic center in an attempt to reveal further info regarding his death.

Three weeks ago, two Arab residents of the Negev were wounded, one seriously, after an explosive went of near them as they were herding sheep near an Israeli occupation military base.

In March 2006, another two Arab residents of the Negev were killed when an Israeli missile detonated near them as they were herding their sheep close to an Israeli military training base.
 
In September 2004, two more Arab residents were killed when an Israeli missile detonated near them in an area close to a military training base.

Israeli occupation army invades the West Bank, kidnaps five from a Tulkarem village, four of whom are children

Saturday April 12, 2008 17:31 by Manar Jibrin - IMEMC News& agencies

 The Israeli occupation army had invaded several parts of West Bank on friday and saturday they kidnapped five residents from the northern West Bank village of Zita near Tulkarem.

Palestinian local sources reported that  Israeli occupation forces  kidnapped five residents , identified as 'Isam Muwafaq Baiadseh, 21, who works for the Palestinian security forces, Mohammad Jamal Nimir Rabah, 16, Samer Abed al Salam Mar'ee, 16, Mohammad Taleb Mar'ee, 16, Mu'aweyah Ragheb Mar'ee,15 all from Zita village.

The sources added that Israeli occupation troops had invaded the central West Bank cities of Ramallah and al Beireh on patrol to searching a residential building in the nearby neighborhood of Betunia no kidnappings were reported. Israeli occupation soldiers  also invaded the the towns of A'teel and 'Anabta near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem  Meanwhile,  Israeli forces installed a temporary military checkpoint east of the southern West Bank city of Beit Sahour on Friday night.

Israeli occupation settlers attack Palestinian farmer near Hebron

Sunday April 13, 2008 08:26 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

At around 10 am on Saturday, 61-year old farmer Sadiq al-Barri was attacked by around 25 Israeli occupation illegal settlers, who surrounded the man and his wife while they were working in their field, and began pelting them with rocks.

Al-Barri stated, "I was in my field when suddenly more than 25 people arrived and began to throw stones. They cried 'go away.' Where can I go? I was doing nothing wrong, simply working my land. They covered their faces with their shirts and threw stones at my wife and me. It was the first time I had seen these settlers. They want me to leave, but tomorrow I will go to my field again."

The elderly farmer attempted to file a complaint with the Israeli occupation police department built on illegally occupied Palestinian land near Hebron, but was informed by the officer in charge that the police department was closed. Only after intervention by the Israeli human rights group 'Rabbis for Human Rights' was the station opened to al-Bari in order to file his complaint. In the complaint, al-Bari stated that both he and his wife sustained injuries from the rocks thrown at them by the settlers.

The Israeli occupation police departments located on illegally occupied Palestinian land are given a mandate by the Israeli government to protect the illegal Israeli settlers that have seized Palestinian land in violation of international law. They are, as a result, extremely reticent to pursue investigations of illegal Israeli settler attacks against the Palestinian civilian population. In the Hebron area, attacks on Palestinian civilians by illegal Israeli settlers occur on a daily basis, and investigations of these incidents by Israeli occupation police are extremely rare.

The attacks often intensify on Saturdays, when illegal Israeli settlers gather together after prayer services for the Jewish holy day of Shabbat, in order to attack Palestinian civilians who have been living for millennia on land that the Israeli settlers consider to be theirs by 'divine right'.