Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Peace Activists in Ni'lin, Dair Al-Ghusoun, Storm 3 Towns, Kidnap 3 Palestinians in Nablus, on August 17, 2008

Dozens choke on tear gas as protest is dispersed in Ni'lin

Date: 17 / 08 / 2008 Time: 19:57
Ramallah – Ma'an –

Dozens of Palestinian civilians choked on tear gas Sunday when Israeli occupation forces dispersed a peaceful protest that began in the town of Ni'lin north of Ramallah.

The protest was organized by the Ni'lin Committee Against the wall. The committee called for demonstrators to gather in the center of the town and move as a group towards the construction site of the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall, which cuts off the residents of the town from their ancestral land.

The day of the protest construction on the separation wall was ongoing. Bulldozers were digging a path for the wall, and Israeli soldiers stood guard at the ready for protesters.

The group went to the southern end of the construction site, where they stood in the way of the construction equipment in order to delay the creation of the wall on their lands. The main tactic of the group was to stand in the way of the bulldozers, thus preventing the first stage of the building.

Clashes ensued between soldiers and protesters, and ended when soldiers threw canisters of tear gas at the group, causing several to choke on the noxious fumes.

Israeli occupation forces storm three towns in northern tip of West Bank

Date: 17 / 08 / 2008 Time: 15:29
Jenin – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Silat Al-Dhahr in south west Jenin on Sunday morning along with villages of Ti'nnik and Zububa north west of the city where the patrols searched agricultural lands.

The villages are clustered in the northern most point of the West Bank, near Israel's Salem military training compound. Last week several dunums of agricultural land and olive groves were destroyed to enlarge the area.

Palestinian sources say that Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Zububa at 2:30am Sunday morning and searched agricultural lands near the separation wall.

In Silat Al-Dhahr and Ti'nnik, Israeli patrols marched the streets with no detentions reported.

Eyewitnesses in Ya'abad, a town south west of Jenin, said that Israeli forces patrolled As-Sahel road. The eyewitness heard shots fired and faint voices through loudspeakers.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap three Palestinians near Nablus

Date: 17 / 08 / 2008 Time: 10:34
Nablus – Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped at dawn on Sunday three young men from the village of Asira, south of Nablus, after storming their houses.

Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces identified the abductees as: Taha Yassin and 'Ala Abdel-Latif and Montasser Yassin.

Israeli occupation army attacks peaceful anti-wall demonstration near Dair Al-Ghusoun

Date: 16 / 08 / 2008 Time: 20:28
Tulkarem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation soldiers attacked an anti wall demonstration west of the town of Dair Al-Ghusoun in the northern West Bank on Saturday.

Israeli occupation soldiers detained three demonstrators, and attacked and beat several others including local journalists. Protesters chanted angry slogans denouncing Israeli actions that are against international law.

The demonstration was organized by the Popular Struggle Front (PSF) and was attended by leaders of the National Action committee, international peace activists, residents of the town, a deputy of the local governor, Jamal Sa'eed; the head of the municipal council of the town A'hed Zanabeet; Sa'el Khalil, coordinator of the national factions and Hakam Taleb, member of the politburo office of the PSF.

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