News, June  23, 2008

Israeli Occupation Forces Seriously Injure Elderly Palestinian in Gaza, Kidnap Five Palestinians in Dair Abu Mesha'al, in the West Bank

Elderly Palestinian seriously wounded by Israeli army in northern Gaza

Date: 23 / 06 / 2008  Time:  17:06

Gaza – Ma'an -

A 67 year-old man was shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces in the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon. Local sources told Ma'an that Jamil Abdul Rahman Al-Ghoul was shot while he was in his garden which is 350 meters from the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation army opened fire on, injuring him in the shoulder and neck. One of his relatives, Abu Ziad Al-Ghoul, said that the man was seriously injured and was taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the sector.

The Israeli occupation army invades a village near Ramallah and kidnaps five civilians

Monday June 23, 2008 13:19 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by the Israeli army during an invasion targeting the village of Dair Abu Mesha'al located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday morning.

Witnesses said that at least 15 Israeli jeeps invaded the village on Monday at dawn at around 2:00 AM. Witnesses added that soldiers conducted a wide scale house-to-house search in the village and used police dogs.

During the search soldiers forced all the families that reside in the attacked homes to stay out, which also included children, local sources said. The military attack ended on Monday morning, troops left the village after kidnapping five civilian men, local sources identified those kidnapped as; Tha'er Abu Taha, 30, Ghassan Abu Taha, 23, Tarik Abu Harb, 21, Fou'ad Shuhadah, 20, and Nasser Attalah, 29.

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