Israeli occupation forces disable mobile phone transmission during incursion into Beit Hanoun

[ 02/04/2008 - 05:24 PM ]

BEIT HANUN, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used a new technique of disabling transmission of all mobile phone lines during their incursion at dawn Wednesday into the east of the Beit Hanoun town, northern Gaza Strip, and kidnapped three Palestinian citizens before withdrawing.

Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that IOFs reinforced by five tanks invaded the town amid sporadic gunfire at Palestinians' houses and kidnapped three young men. The eyewitness revealed that the invading troops placed an electronic device on one of the tanks to jam mobile phones used in the invaded areas in order to prevent the citizens from providing the Palestinian resistance with information about their locations.

Meanwhile, the IOF troops kidnapped a Palestinian resistance fighter affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, during their incursion at dawn Wednesday in the Jenin refugee camp.

Palestinian local sources reported that a large number of IOF troops reinforced by tens of tanks and armored vehicles invaded the camp and opened fire indiscriminately at the houses which led to injury of one Palestinian citizen called Shuja'a Al-Quraini, adding that the invading troops broke into and ransacked many houses in the camp. The IOF troops invaded the Askar refugee camp in Nablus and kidnapped three Palestinian citizens to an unknown destination after storming and ransacking a number of houses in the camp

The IOF troops also kidnapped a 17-year-old Palestinian teen at the Hawara checkpoint in the southeast of Nablus at the pretext that they found an explosive device in his possession.

In retaliation to the Israeli policy of incursions and kidnappings, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, along with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad Movement, announced their joint responsibility for opening fire at noon Wednesday at a group of Israeli settlers near the Harmish settlement outpost in the east of the Qafin town in Tulkarm.

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.