3 Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces, 700 kidnapped from Nablus in 2007, including 48 females

Israeli military kidnaps three Palestinians in the West Bank

Thursday January 10, 2008 10:16 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation forces carried out invasion operations in different parts of the West Bank on Wednesday night.

Security sources reported that military operations were executed in the West Bank cities of Qalqilia, Tulkarem and Bethlehem and two Palestinians kidnapped while a third Palestinian was kidnapped at the bridge of King Hussein on the Jordanian border. Sources added that a group of Israeli Special Forces, disguised in Palestinian civilian clothes, broke into a shop in the city of Qalqilia and kidnapped Kamal Khudair.

Khudair is from Gaza but had been working in Qalqilia for years. In a separate operation in Tulkarem military forces kidnapped a 16 year old Palestinian named Fadi Qadoha and transferred him to an undisclosed detention center. Another Palestinian identified as Ala' Hassan 26, from Bethlehem, was also abducted after being detained for a long time at the King Hussein bridge on his way to Jordan.

Statistic: 700 Palestinians including 48 females kidnapped from Nablus in 2007

Thursday January 10, 2008 11:01 by Ameen Abu Wardeh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Statistics issued by the Palestinian Prisoners' Society about the number of Palestinians abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the past year in the Nablus district show that at least 700 were kidnapped.

Ra'ed Amer, head of the Prisoners' Society in Nablus stated there were at least 20 elderly Palestinian prisoners, more than 200 child prisoners and at least 100 sick and injured who were in serious need of treatment.

Amer added that 277 prisoners were abducted from the city, 236 from the refugee camps and 210 from villages surrounding Nablus. The statistics also show that the number of abducted Palestinians in the Nablus district since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada reached at least 2000 male and female prisoners, among those 23 female prisoners who are still inside the Israeli occupation detention centers, and 48 female prisoners had been released.

Amer censured the ongoing Israeli policy in the northern West Bank city of Nablus including the establishment of military checkpoints and the random daily abductions that included most sectors of the society, children, elderly people, ministers, parliamentary members, mayors and council members. He said that this policy targeted civilians in the Nablus district. It breaches all the international charters and the principles of human rights.

Amer called on all the local and international human rights organizations for immediate intervention and to bring an end to civilian hardship in the Nablus district. He also demanded that the Palestinian Authority make the prisoners' case their priority.

Translated by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News.

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