2 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, 13 Kidnapped in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in twin Gaza Strip incursions

Date: 23 / 01 / 2008 Time: 12:10

Gaza – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a fifty-year-old Palestinian man named Isma'il Al-Attar on Wednesday in the northern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources said that Al-Attar was standing near his house at the Ad-Da'ur area in Beit Lahiya when Israeli forces were shooting at Palestinian houses.

Separately, a Palestinian activist affiliated with Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed on Wednesday as clashes erupted near the Sufa crossing in the southern Gaza Strip between Palestinian resistance fighters and an undercover Israeli force.

Palestinian medical sources identified the deceased as Yahya Al-Biyuk. Fierce fighting is ongoing near Sufa crossing.

Undercover Israeli forces also entered the Gaza Strip in the area of Al-Fukhkhari, in the southern Gaza Strip, exchanging fire with Palestinian fighters.

Gazans injured in latest spate of Israeli violence to be treated in Cairo

Date: 23 / 01 / 2008 Time: 20:18

Cairo – Ma'an -

Egyptian Health Minister Hatem Al-Jabali announced on Wednesday that it has been decided to treat some of the Palestinians, who were injured in the recent spate of Israeli incursions, in the Nasser Institute in Egypt.

The minister said in a statement that the treatment would be free of charge and carried out in coordination with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

This latest decision is part of the ongoing efforts by Egypt to support the Palestinian people and alleviate their suffering.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Palestinians in Bethlehem raid
Date: 23 / 01 / 2008 Time: 13:29
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two Palestinians from the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said.

The sources said Israeli occupation forces invaded the Cinema neighborhood as well as Al-Madbasa and Bab Az-Ziqaq squares. The Israeli troops ransacked the Al-Ihsan health center, confiscating computers and detaining forty-four-year-old Mousa Abda and Thiry-five-year-old Samih Riziq from the center.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 13 Palestinians in the West Bank
Date: 23 / 01 / 2008 Time: 11:46
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli forces kidnapped 13 Palestinians throughout the West Bank on Wednesday.

Israeli media said a rifle was found at the house of one of the detainees in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Thousands cross Rafah borders; Hamas says it’s the decision of the people

Wednesday January 23, 2008 09:51 by Nisreen Qumsieh & Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Thousands of Palestinians residents of the Gaza strip managed to cross into Egypt in the early hours of Wednesday after the Palestinian resistance destroyed part of the Wall located on the southern Gaza Egypt borders.

Eyewitnesses reported that streets throughout Gaza were crowded as civilians traveled in order to pass through to Egypt to collect supplies before the closure of the border by the Egyptian Authority.

The Gazans were shopping for food and fuel, IMEMC correspondent in Gaza, Rami Al Mughari, said.

On Wednesday at dawn the Palestinian resistance destroyed part of the Wall separating the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah from Egypt using five home made bombs, shortly after thousands of Palestinian flocked through and started to buy food and fuel supplies from Egypt to bring back to the Coastal region.

The explosions came after hundreds of Palestinian protesters on Tuesday; most of them women had protested the continuous siege of Gaza, at the main gate of Rafah crossing on Tuesday afternoon.

The protesters entered to the Egyptian side from the borders but they were dispersed by the Egyptian Security forces. Clashes broke out between them, causing injuries to at least 20 Palestinian women.

Khaled Mash'al, Hamas politburo chief in the Syrian capital Damascus said that the destruction of the Rafah Egypt border Wall was made by the people's demands and is not related to political demands.

Mash'al added that the Egyptian Gaza borders should be controlled solely by the Palestinians and Egyptians. Mash'al made his comments during the opening speech he made at the Palestinian National Conference Hamas organized in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday.

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