Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Ni'lin Peace Protest, Kidnap 2 Palestinians in Misliya, 107 in a Week, Strip Search Men and Women at Al-Jalama Checkpoint

Israeli occupation soldiers attack a peaceful protest in Ni’lin

Monday August 25, 2008 01:30 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli occupation soldiers attacked on Sunday a nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Ni’lin village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers fired gas bombs causing several injuries and detained an Israeli peace activist. On Saturday, soldiers kidnapped two children in the village.

Gas bombs fired by the army at nonviolent protesters in Ni’lin

Local sources reported that dozens of Israeli and International peace activists joined the Palestinian villagers in their protest against the Wall while military bulldozers continued to uprooted orchards and farmlands in the southern area of the village.

The army attempted to stop the protest but the protesters marched through the deployed forces and managed to reach a Wall construction on the village’s land.

Soldiers declared the area a closed military zone but the protesters continued their peaceful protest. Troops fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at the protesters causing a number of injuries.

Salah Al-Khawaja, media coordinator of the Ni’lin Committee Against the Wall, said that soldiers kidnapped on Saturday two children after breaking into their homes in the village.

Al-Khawaja added that the Israeli occupation army declared the center of the village as a zone with permanent military presence in an attempt to bar the nonviolent protests and cause direct clashes with the army.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Palestinians near Jenin
Date: 24 / 08 / 2008 Time: 12:23
Jenin – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces ransacked several homes and kidnapped two Palestinians in the village of Al-Araqa north west Jenin and in the nearby village of Misliya both in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian security sources said that a number of Israeli military vehicles raided Al-Arqa in the early dawn hours and arrested Umar Yahya and Ahmad Yahya from their homes.

The same sources said Israeli occupation troops stormed the village of Misliya and forced many residents to evacuate their homes for inspection.

Protesting Israeli strip search policy, Palestinian workers rally at Al-Jalamah checkpoint near Jenin

Date: 24 / 08 / 2008 Time: 11:08
Jenin – Ma'an –

Palestinian workers rallied in protest of the Israeli occupation forces policy of strip searching men and women traveling through Al-Jalama checkpoint as they travel to work in northern Israel.

Dozens of Palestinian workers, who go to work in Israel every morning and come back in the afternoon, rallied on Sunday near the checkpoint where they are strip-searched by Israeli border security each morning before work.

The guards hired to perform the searches are not regular security or army forces, but rather employees of a private Israeli company.

One of the protesting workers, Abu Hussain, told Ma'an, "security officers force workers to remove all their clothes except their underwear. Before passing the checkpoint, a worker is inspected three times; first he is checked electronically, and then taken to a room where he takes off his clothes before cameras. In some cases guards will manually inspect workers."

As the workers rallied, Israeli occupation forces detained several buses carrying relatives of Palestinian prisoners en route to visit Israeli jails.

IOF troops kidnap 107 Palestinians within a week

[ 23/08/2008 - 10:11 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The PA prisoners and ex-prisoners' affairs ministry confirmed Sunday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have kidnapped close to 107 Palestinian citizens since it announced its intention to release of 199 Palestinian captives from Israeli jails last week as a goodwill gesture to Mahmoud Abbas.

"Although the IOA endorsed the release of the 199 Palestinians, the IOF troops arrest campaigns against the Palestinian people didn’t stop as around 107 Palestinian citizen were rounded up at the hands of the IOF troops", asserted Riyadh Al-Ashqar, the information officer in the ministry.

He also explained that the release of every Palestinian captive was important for the ministry and for the Palestinian people although many of those set to be released were about to finish their imprisonment terms, or those who were serving light imprisonment terms.

But he made it clear that what was indeed considered to be great for the Palestinian people was to succeed in freeing old prisoners and those who have been in jail for more than ten years.

Moreover, Ashqar urged the Palestinian negotiator not to rely on the Israeli "gestures of goodwill" because, he stressed, the Israeli occupation has no "goodwill" as evident with the prisoners' harsh living condition inside the jails.

Three Palestinian resistance factions, including Hamas Movement, captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit two years ago, and set a number of conditions to set him free, including releasing Palestinian children and women captives, and those who served long imprisonment terms among others.The IOA refused to meet those humanitarian demands so far.

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