Israeli occupation forces kidnap 17 Palestinians in the West Bank

Date: 29 / 01 / 2008 Time: 09:09

Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 17 Palestinians in different West Bank districts under the pretext that they are all ‘wanted activists’ on Tuesday morning.

Israeli sources said that a pistol and live ammunition was found in the house of one of the abductees in Hebron in the southern West Bank.

The Israeli occupation army attack several villages in northern part of the West Bank and kidnaps two civilians

Tuesday January 29, 2008 14:48 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News ghassanb at imemc dot org
Two Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning during an army attack targeting several villages near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Jamal Harb, 28, and Oday Manour, 16, were kidnapped by Israeli troops during an invasion to the village of Kufer Kalil located near Nablus. Witnesses said that soldiers searched and ransacked several homes in the village before taking the two men and leaving the village.

Meanwhile sources in Nablus city said that troops today also attacked and searched homes in the village of Beit Dajan and Beit Fourik also located near Nablus city.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap three Palestinians in Ramallah

Date: 29 / 01 / 2008 Time: 11:22
Ramallah – Ma'an –

The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning kidnapped three Palestinians in the central West Bank city of Ramallah and in the village of Beit Rima northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources told Ma'an that several Israeli military vehicles raided the village at 1:30 am, and the soldiers broke into numerous homes before apprehending a university student, twenty-two-year-old Ahmad Rimawi and nineteen-year-old Saddam Rimawi.

Sources in Ramallah said that the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped forty-eight-year-old Samir Hasarnah from his house in Ramallah's Satih Marhaba neighborhood. Hasarnah is the representative of the Qatari Red Cross in Palestine, and he heads the academic council of the Ibn Rashid Al-Maktum School in Ramallah.

Israeli occupation forces seize two Palestinians in Nablus
Date: 29 / 01 / 2008 Time: 09:37

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Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces seized two Palestinians on Tuesday morning from the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus, one of whom was a Palestinian police officer.

Palestinian security sources told our correspondent that several Israeli occupation military jeeps stormed the village after midnight and kidnapped a Palestinian police officer, twenty-eight-year-old Kamal Abu Harb and sixteen-year-old Uday Mansur.

Separately, the Israeli radio said that several Israeli settlers broke into the area of Qabir Yousif, or Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp east of Nablus and that a chief rabbi for Jews of French origin visited the Tomb amidst heavy security.

The report added that the visit came after several Israeli occupation government ministers submitted a petition to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asking him to demand that the Palestinian Authority repair the Joseph Tomb which was recently been damaged by Palestinians.

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