Israeli occupation forces withdraw from Al-Farahin, kidnap 40 Palestinians

Israeli occupation forces withdraw from Al-Farahin, kidnap 40 Palestinians

Date: 02 / 05 / 2008 Time: 13:08
Gaza – Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 40 Palestinians from the district of Al-Farahin east of Khan Younis in the southern the Gaza Strip before withdrawing late on Thursday evening, Palestinian sources told Ma'an.

The kidnapped Palestinians were taken to an unknown destination.

Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Al-Farahin after a 20-hour incursion that left 55-year old Mohammad Abu Daqqa dead and 12-year-old Emad Husayn Qudeih with a gunshot wound to his head. He remains in a serious condition in Ash- Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Eight military vehicles and three bulldozers stormed the area at 4am on Thursday and began razing agricultural lands, demolishing houses and detaining citizens.

IOF troops kidnap 30 Palestinians during incursion into Khan Younis

[ 01/05/2008 - 04:08 PM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

A large number of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) reinforced by tanks, bulldozers and aerial cover invaded amid intensive gunfire at dawn Thursday the Farahin neighborhood in the east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip and kidnapped 30 Palestinians.

Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that the invading IOF troops stormed many houses moving from one house into another through demolishing the internal walls and kidnapped 30 Palestinian citizens, while the military bulldozers were sabotaging agricultural lands in the area.

For its part, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced in a communiqué received by the PIC that its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with the invading troops and fired four mortar shells at them.

In a monthly report received by the PIC, the international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights stated that the IOF troops killed during last April 83 Palestinians, 76 of them in Gaza, while they kidnapped in the same month 480 others including 64 children under age 18 and four women.

The report underlined that this large number of victims clearly proves that Israel is still persistence in its policy of killing and assassinating Palestinians despite such crimes are proscribed by international conventions and charters, and international humanitarian laws.

The report also highlighted that the IOA assaulted nine Islamic and Christian holy places in the Palestinian lands.

In another context, the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, vowed to retaliate strongly to the assassination of Awad Al-Qiq, 35, the commander of engineering and manufacturing in the Movement, which was committed by the IOF troops a few hours after the Palestinian factions agreed to a plan for calm with the Israeli occupation.

Israeli minister of internal security Avi Dichter called on members of the mini-cabinet for security and political affairs to reject the Egyptian initiative for calm with Hamas and the Palestinian factions, warning that any approval to the calm would give legitimacy to Hamas in Gaza.

According to the Ha'aretz website, Dichter castigated the Israeli premier and his war minister for not telling the security cabinet about the nature of contacts with the Egyptian side regarding the truce with Hamas, calling on them to provide detailed information in this regard in order to discuss it by the cabinet.

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