11 Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces in Anabta, Nablus, and Hebron

Palestinian kidnapped in old city of Hebron

Date: 19 / 08 / 2008 Time: 15:16
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation border police detained a Palestinian on Tuesday near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank.

The mosque is located in the heavily militarized, Israeli-occupied section of the old city, which has been largely taken over by settlers.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap six Palestinians in Anabta; storm Tulkarem

Date: 19 / 08 / 2008 Time: 12:45
Tulkarem – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped six civilians in the West Bank town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem, during a raid on Tuesday morning.

Palestinian security forces said that Israeli military vehicles and soldiers on foot stormed the town at 4am, forcibly entering and searching Palestinian homes.

The sources added that Israeli occupation forces detained: 21-year-old Anas Abu Asal, 22-year-old Jihad Mohammad Abu Asal, 21-year-old Adam Abdel Ghani Barakat, 21-year-old Imad Abdul Razeq Al-Najjar, 22-year-old Marwan Nazih Melhem and 21-year-old Abdel Karim Sa’id Barakat.

Israeli forces also stormed the city and refugee camp of Tulkarem late on Monday night and raided the Mas’oud De’bas fertilizers and medicine company, and raided the houses of residents Afif Jallad, Khaled Nimer and Majed Dalbah.

Tulkarem residents reported that the Israeli occupation troops damaged their property, but no one was arrested.

Israeli occupation army kidnaps eight civilians

Tuesday August 19, 2008 10:43 by Rula Shahwan - IMEMC News

Israeli occupation army troops invaded Tulkarem, Nablus and Jenin on Tuesday at dawn and rendited eight civilians, as reported by local sources.

Israeli occupation troops invaded Tulkarem with a number of military jeeps and launched a widespread search campaign among several neighborhoods. Troops searched, several houses kidnapping the total of six civilians and taking them to unknown detention camps.

In Nablus, a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the city. Troops searched several houses and took two civilians to an unknown detention center before they withdrew from the city.

Troops also invaded Jenin; military vehicles drove through out the streets for a couple of hours then withdrew, no people were taken and the reason of this incursion is unknown.

On August 11, Palestinian and Israeli security officials met in Jenin to discuss security issues.

The Palestinian security officials demanded to have full control over Jenin as PA security forces managed to impose law and order in the area, according to Palestinian sources.

The PA also demanded Israel to ease restrictions imposed the movement of Palestinians in the Jenin area.

IOFs kidnap Palestinians, violate Gaza calm

[ 19/08/2008 - 11:11 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped four Palestinians overnight Monday and at dawn Tuesday in Al-Khalil and Nablus districts including two prominent figures, locals reported.

In Dura town, Al-Khalil district, the IOF soldiers kidnapped Shaikh Ahmed Al-Qiq, 60, after encircling his family home.

His sons said that their father suffered a number of health problems, and noted that his son Mohammed was currently held in occupation jails.

The PA preventive security apparatus had detained and interrogated Shaikh Ahmed for three days almost a month ago and also held his son Mohammed for 15 days before his kidnapping by the IOF.

Other IOF units stormed the house of Shaikh Yasser Amr, another prominent figure in the town, and took him away.

Amr was also detained for 25 days in the PA preventive security premises and was released only a few days ago.

In Nablus, IOF troops kidnapped two teenagers in Nablus after storming the city and the two nearby villages of Deir Sharaf and Beit Forik.

In the same context, a Palestinian detainee said that soldiers stripped and beat him up after arresting him.

Mahmoud Abayat, hailing from Bethlehem, said that the occupation soldiers continued to beat him until arrival at the Maskobiyah detention center where another round of beatings started.

The detainee, speaking to the lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner's club on Monday, said that he is suffering stomach inflammation and that he vomits blood and is given only sedatives by his Israeli jailors.

In the Gaza Strip, witnesses reported that two IOF Apaches flew at very low altitudes over Gaza city before midnight Monday in clear violation of the calm agreement.

They added that the two army choppers left the Gaza skies after quarter of an hour. They noted that the Israeli reconnaissance planes never stopped hovering over Gaza even after the calm went into effect on 19/6/2008.

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