Palestinian Killed, Dozens Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

One civilian killed, dozens kidnapped in a limited Israeli incursion east of Beit Hanoon

Date: 29 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:14
Gaza - Ma'an -

A Palestinian man died on Thursday morning due to major injuries he sustained in an Israeli occupation forces incursion on Wednesday in Al-'Omour area east of Khan Younis and Rafah, Palestinian medical sources announced.

He was named as Ahmad Al-'Omour.

Also early on Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation army kidnapped dozens of civilians in the Al-Farta area, east of Beit Hanoon when Israeli military vehicles raided the area under cover of intensive gunfire.

Palestinian sources said that the Israeli occupation army ordered all the men between the ages of 16 and 60 to move to the eastern side of the town so they could be transferred to the Israeli borders.

Ten military vehicles along with two bulldozers raided the area east of the town of Beit Hanoon and razed agricultural areas before withdrawing.

Israeli occupation forces invade Ni'lin, storm houses and detain four men

Date: 29 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:44
Ramallah – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah, on Thursday morning, storming houses and kidnapping four men from the village. Three of those kidnapped were identified as Khalil 'Abdel Kareem Abu Srour, 'Abdul Qaher 'Ali Abu Srour and 'Ayed Sadeq.

The mayor of Ni'lin, Aiman Nafe', stated that the incursion and detentions aimed to suppress field activities scheduled for Thursday against new Israeli construction of the separation wall through the southern lands of the village.

Nafe' noted that the village will lose access to 2,500 dunums of land planted with olive trees when this latest wall construction is complete. Ni'lin farmers and their families had planned a sit-in protest on their lands that will be confiscated by the separation wall. He also explained that the village previously lost 40,000 dunums of its lands in 1948.

Media spokesperson of the Popular Campaign for Resisting the Wall, Salah Al-Khawaja, said that twenty Israeli occupation military vehicles carrying soldiers and officers stormed the village early on Thursday morning. Israeli occupation forces imposed a curfew, preventing the residents from going to work or reaching the centre of the village, in an attempt to deter Ni'lin residents from continuing their peaceful struggle against the wall.

Salah Al-Khawaja affirmed that these Israeli occupation forces attempts would not thwart Ni'lin residents, farmers and the popular campaign from continuing their nonviolent resistance programme which has proved its effectiveness recently. Villagers have managed to prevent the bulldozers from demolishing lands and building the wall on various occasions through their peaceful protests, as well as exposing the Israeli occupation army's violent practices in repressing peaceful demonstrations and popular initiatives rejecting Israeli settlement expansion, wall construction, and land expropriation in the village.

The villagers plan to continue their resistance and have scheduled another march towards the lands threatened with confiscation to try to stop the Israeli occupation bulldozers from continuing their work.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 3 Palestinian brothers in Tulkarem

Date: 29 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:55
Tulkarem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday morning arrested three Palestinian brothers from the northern West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams east of Tulkarem.

Palestinian security sources told Ma'an's Tulkarem correspondent that several Israeli occupation military vehicles raided the camp at 3 am and kidnapped 23-year-old Yasser Qazmour and his brothers, 20-year-old Mahmoud and 26-year-old 'Amir.

Israeli occupation forces detain six civilians across the West Bank

Date: 29 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:55
Bethlehem - Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces detained six Palestinian civilians at dawn on Thursday after storming a number of cities across the West Bank.

Israeli sources said that the Israeli occupation army detained six "wanted" activists in Jenin and Tulkarem and transferred them to interrogation centers.

Ariel settlers dump wild pigs in agricultural lands south of Salfit

Date: 29 / 05 / 2008 Time: 12:08
Nablus – Salfit – Ma'an –

Settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel have dumped wild pigs on Thursday in 'Ein Al-Qabliyah neighborhood south of Salfit where they smashed the farmers' plants.

Farmer Mohammad Faleh 'Omran said that the pigs destroyed his tomato seedlings, ruined the earth and trampled on his plants.

Farmer Mahmoud Hassan said that the pigs smashed his apple shrubs and his field at night.

He added that the farmers have killed three pigs among the large herds released by the illegal Israeli settlers.

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