10 Palestinians Injured in Gaza, 6 Kidnapped in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces

The Israeli occupation army injures ten Palestinians during the ongoing invasion in southern Gaza

Thursday April 03, 2008 11:33 by IMEMC Staff - IMEMC News

Palestinian medical sources reported that ten Palestinians were injured during an on going Israeli occupation army invasion targeting Al-Qarrara village in the southern part of the Gaza strip.

Al-Quds brigades the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad confirmed that two of the group's fighters were injured during the clashes that took place between the invading troops and the resistance.

"a number of the brigades fighters clashed with the invading force, inflicting injuries among the Israeli occupation soldiers", the Al-Quds brigades statement explained.

The group maintained that such a clash is a part of the resistance response to the continued Israeli occupation army actions against the Palestinian resistance fighters including the arrest campaign in the West Bank.

Palestinian media reports said that the Israeli occupation force in the Qarrara town attacked and searched homes then kidnapped seven Palestinians including a woman.

Witnesses said that scores of Israeli occupation soldiers broke into the Palestinian-owned houses there and rounded up some civilians, including Ahmed Serour and his son, Atef aL-Najjar and his wife, Yousuf Fayyad, Mohammad Fayad and another of the Abed family.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army kidnapped five Palestinians from the northern parts of Gaza Strip, after a dozen of tanks, accompanied with a bulldozer, and invaded the Sifa area, just north of Beit Lahiya town in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

These kidnappings came after the soldiers searched the local houses and forces inhabitants out, using loud speakers. Also, the Israeli bulldozer began razing farm lands in the area, under the protection of the tanks, witnesses said.

Six Palestinian fighters injured in clashes with Israeli occupation forces

Date: 03 / 04 / 2008 Time: 11:19
Gaza – Ma'an –

Six Palestinian fighters have been injured, one seriously, in ongoing clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younis on Thursday.

Palestinian medical sources said the seriously injured activist was taken to the European Hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and the other five were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

According to eyewitnesses, the clashes are still ongoing.

A statement from the Al-Quds Brigades explained that fighters affiliated to the Islamic Jihad targeted an Israeli occupation undercover force with two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and five mortar shells before clashing with them for several hours.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap six Palestinians across West Bank

Date: 03 / 04 / 2008 Time: 10:41
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped six Palestinians on Thursday morning after raiding several West Bank cities and villages.

Israeli occupation sources said the abductees were 'wanted' Palestinians from the districts of Hebron and Ramallah.

Meanwhile, Palestinian security sources said Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 29-year-old Ahmad Al-Atrash from Al-Walaja village near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank as he was heading to work in Jerusalem.

In Tulkarem district in the northern West Bank, local sources told Ma'an's correspondent that the Israeli occupation forces apprehended 24-year-old Khalid Sabbah in the village of Qaffin. He is the brother of a 'wanted' Islamic Jihad activist.

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