Palestinian Killed, Another Dies of Abuse, 4 Injured in a Protest, 4 Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces

Al-Qassam Brigades fighter killed in Israeli occupation air strike

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 15:51
Gaza – Ma'an –

One Palestinian fighter affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades was killed and two others were injured on Tuesday when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at a group of fighters east of Al-Qarara, near the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Mu'awiyah Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry identified the dead activist as 21-year-old Tahrir Abdul Ghafoor. Hassanain also said that the wounded were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. He said one of the injured men was in critical condition.

The Israeli strike came shortly after two Palestinian homemade projectiles landed in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. One Israeli woman went in shock as a result, and Israeli greenhouses were damaged, Israeli media reported.

Palestinian worker dies after being detained by Israeli occupation soldiers

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:27
Jenin - Ma'an -

A Palestinian worker died on Friday while trying to pass through the Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall to get to work in Jerusalem.

Abdul Rahman Saba'anah, 44, from the West Bank town of Qabatia, south of Jenin suffered a heart attack and died after being detained and abused by Israeli occupation soldiers.

Faisal Saba'neh, Abdul Rahman's cousin, told Ma'an "the incident took place last Friday when Abed Ar- Rahman was on way to his work in the city of Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation soldiers chased him and eventually kidnapped him along with other workers and took him to the Qalandiyah crossing north of Jerusalem."

The Israeli occupation soldiers issued fines for each of them, claiming that they do not have permission to enter Jerusalem for work and ordered them to leave. But Abdul Rahman tried again to enter Jerusalem but suffered a heart attack and died, Faisal added.

Faisal affirmed that Abdul Rahman tried to get a permit to enter Israel for work but the Israeli authorities refused to give him such a permit under the pretext of "security reasons."

Abdul Rahman leaves six children 8-year-old Abed al Fatah, 9-year-old Ahmad, 11-year-old Ansar, 14-year-old Mohammad, 16-year-old Aminah, and 17-year-old Ayah.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Al-Aqsa Brigades fighters near Nablus

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 16:44
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two Palestinian fighters affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah (which is affiliated with Abbas), in the village of Beita near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday.

Palestinian security sources said that undercover Israeli occupation forces infiltrated in the village and approached a house where 24-year-old Ayman Sama'nah and 22-year-old Muhammad Abu Al-Hayja were hiding.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that five Israeli occupation military jeeps and armored personnel carrier followed the undercover forces surrounded the house, seizing both activists.

Israeli occupation army invades Jenin refugee camp, kidnaps two Palestinians

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:06
Jenin - Ma'an -

The Israeli occupation army invaded the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning and arrested two of the camp's residents.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation army kidnapped , 17-year-old Musa Ahmad Sa'eed and 20-year-old Jamil Abed al Latif Nabhan, and took them to an unknown destination.

The same sources indicated that Israeli occupation armored vehicles conducted a wide range of searches of private homes amidst firing rounds of live ammunition.

The Israeli occupation army is carrying out sweeps of kidnappings, breaking into homes in the city of Jenin, villages and towns while the Palestinian security forces are carrying out security deployment to impose law and order in the city and its surroundings.

Israeli occupation army shuts down a military checkpoint; installs dozens of temporary ones around Nablus

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:22
Nablus - Ma'an -

The Israeli occupation army closed a military checkpoint known as "Checkpoint 17" north west of the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday morning until further notice, meanwhile setting up dozens of temporary military checkpoints on the outskirts of the city.

Local eyewitnesses reported that "the Israeli occupation forces put a note on the checkpoint saying that the checkpoint is closed until further notice." The soldiers installed a temporary checkpoint on the Al-Batahn – Nablus road, north of the city in addition to other temporary checkpoints on the road junction of the nearby settlement of Yetzahar, south of the city.

Bus driver, 35-year-old Hashem Abu Zietun, said " Israeli occupation forces have been obstructing hundreds of Palestinian vehicles which pass through the Za'atarah checkpoint south of the city which connects the northern areas of the West Bank with the south since the morning." He added that the soldiers are stopping all people entering Nablus and searching them and their vehicles.

Four Palestinians injured in rally against Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall near Ramallah

Date: 13 / 05 / 2008 Time: 09:20
Ramallah – Ma'an –

Four Palestinians were injured on Monday as Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a rally protesting the separation wall in the central West Bank village of Ni'lin west of Ramallah.

Local residents from the village rallied in protest against the Israeli separation wall after Israeli construction companies began to draw the borders for the passage of the separation wall through the village's agricultural fields in the south.

According to 'Ahid Khawaja, coordinator of the popular campaign for countering the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in Ni'lin, the Israeli authorities handed over warrants, informing the villagers that 2,500 dunums of the village's lands will be confiscated. He said there were 5,000 olive trees in the area threatened with confiscation.

"The village possessed 57,000 dunums before 1948, of which 21,000 was confiscated after 1967, and now after the separation wall, only 19,000 will be left," he said.

He also pointed out that a large number of the village's residents have emmigrated because of Israeli pressure and unemployment.

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