Israeli Occupation Forces Injure 2 Palestinian Peace Activists, Kidnap12 in the West Bank Today, 475 Kidnapped from Gaza Strip in April-May 2008

Two injured as Israeli occupation forces disperse anti-wall demonstration in Ni'lin

Date: 04 / 06 / 2008 Time: 12:26
Ramallah – Ma'an –

Two Palestinians were were hit by rubber-coated metal bullets when Israeli occupation soldiers attacked peace activists during a peaceful rally protesting the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the central West Bank village of Ni'lin west of Ramallah on Wednesday.

Palestinians and Israeli and foreign peace activists who participated in the rally told Ma'an that Israeli occupation soldiers attacked them with tear gas and rubber bullets, claiming the demonstrators had thrown stones at them.

However, foreign and Israeli solidarity activists claimed that the protestors approached military bulldozers with their hands raised in an attempt to stop the work on the wall.

"We did not throw stones at soldiers. It was the soldiers who began attacking us," said Israeli peace activist Kobi Seats.

Muhammad Amira from Ni'lin, whose uncle's land is being confiscated for the separation wall, says the wall violates international resolutions, but is continuing to be built.

Israel claims that Palestinians whose lands were confiscated will be reimbursed. However, Palestinians refuse to take money for land they did not want to sell.

The mayor of Ni'lin, Ayman Nafi', told Ma'an's reporter that the Israeli forces seized the coordinator of the Popular Committee for Countering the Separation Wall, 'Ahid Al-Khawaja.

He also highlighted that the route of the wall has been changed to annex much of the village lands.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap newly-wed Palestinian in Nablus

Date: 04 / 06 / 2008 Time: 11:57
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian man from the village of Sarra west of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Wednesday.

Local sources told Ma'an's reporter that an Israeli occupation force stormed the village discharging gunfire and sonic bombs before kidnapping 22-year-old newly-wed, Hatim Ghanim.

Ghanim got married just a week ago.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap seven Palestinians in Jenin

Date: 04 / 06 / 2008 Time: 11:42
Jenin – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped seven Palestinians in Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning.

Ma'an's reporter quoted local sources as saying that 15 Israeli occupation military vehicles raided the eastern neighborhood of Jenin and the 'Izzuddin Valley and seized Muhammad Hardan, his brother Hussain and Muhammad Abu Dawood after ransacking their homes.

Meanwhile, Palestinian security sources said that Israeli forces apprehended four other Palestinians working at the Al-Hardan bakery. The sources named the arrestees as Ahmed Hammad, Muhammad Al-Aqhash, Hisham Khayri and Mahmoud Moussa. They were all taken to an unknown destination.

Separately, Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Burqin south of Jenin and patrolled the streets. No arrests have been reported.

Three civilians kidnapped by the army during morning attack on Hebron villages

Wednesday June 04, 2008 13:34 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army attacked several villages near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and kidnapped three civilians on Wednesday late morning.

The sources said that Israeli troops searched and ransacked homes in the village of Al-Shoyoukh, Noba, Ithnah, and Al-Fowar refugee camp. During the search troops forced men out and assaulted some of them the sources added. Soldiers left taking with them the three men to unknown locations.

Witnesses identified two of the kidnapped as, Mohamed Al Warasnah, 25, from Shoyoukh village, Waheb Al-Shareef, 30, from Noba village.

Meanwhile another child was kidnapped by the army when clashes took place during the attack the soldiers did in Ithnah village, witnesses said soldiers chased the boy then took him to unknown location. The boy name remains unknown.

Undercover Israeli occupation forces detain, abuse, a detainee from Jerusalem

Wednesday June 04, 2008 05:04 by IMEMC News

Undercover forces of the Israeli occupation army detained for four hours on Tuesday Hassan Omar Al-Arameen, 24, form Jerusalem, and abused him while searching and interrogating him.

Al-Arameen was held by an undercover unit of the Israeli occupaiton army who also interrogated and thoroughly searched him.

Monqidh Abu Roomy, head of the Media Office at Asrana (Our Detainees) center in Jerusalem, stated that Al Arameen was stopped by the forces at a roadblock which isolated Al-'Aizariya (Bethany) town from Jerusalem.

The forces handed Abu Roomy an order to head to a security center in the Jerusalem area for interrogation.

It is worth mentioning that both Al-Arameen and his brother were detained for forty days at the Al Maskobiya interrogation facility. After the brothers were freed, their father, Omar, was kidnapped by the army and was under interrogation for one month.

Also, soldiers previously demolished the house of the family located in Al-Tour town, near Jerusalem.

Report: Israeli occupation army kidnapped 475 Gaza residents

Wednesday June 04, 2008 13:27 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

A recent report, issued by the Palestinian ministry of prisoners affairs in Gaza revealed that the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 475 Gaza residents including 45 children and 6 fishermen between April and May 2008.

The Israeli occupation army kidnappings across the Gaza Strip were conducted during 125 small-scale and large-scale invasions into different parts of Gaza, the report read.

Riyad Al-Ashqar, head of the information department of the prisoners affairs ministry, told media outlets that the Israeli occupation army sporadic kidnapping campaigns throughout the Gaza Strip, have resulted in the detention of 140 residents from northern Gaza, 40 others from southern Gaza as well as 25 others from the southern city of Rafah alone.

Among those taken prisoners were more than 50 children under the age of 18, including 25 between the ages of 11 and 17, Al-Ashqar explained.

He also pointed out that the Israeli prisons authorities had neglected medical care for many prisoners inside the Israeli detention facilities.

Citing the case of woman prisoner Amal Jom'a, Al-Ashqar made clear that this prisoner has been suffering from inability to move unless helped by fellow prisoners and that her conditioned has been worsened due to lack of proper medical care inside the prison.

The Israeli occupation army has been conducting frequent ground invasions into the various parts of Gaza, since June of last year, when the Hamas party seized control of the region amidst a factional infighting with the Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Currently, the Israeli occupation government holds 11700 Palestinians including about 320 women and hundreds of juveniles, inside various detentions centers, according to the prisoners affairs ministry.

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