Israeli occupation terrorist forces bulldoze 220 dunums of Palestinian agricultural lands, demolish 9 homes in Abassan

IOF troops bulldoze 220 dunums of lands, demolish 9 Palestinian homes

[ 04/05/2008 - 08:44 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces demolished nine Palestinian civilian homes and bulldozed 220 dunums of cultivated lands during their incursion into Abassan east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Legal sources told PIC reporter that the IOF wreaked such vast destruction in less than 12 hours on Thursday.

They said that the IOF soldiers uprooted hundreds of olive and palm trees other than destroying glasshouses and water wells.

The sources noted that the IOF destruction bared the Zionist security fence separating the area from 1948 occupied lands, which made movement in the area hazardous due to the daily firing by IOF tanks and soldiers.

They said that owners of the destroyed buildings could not repair or re-build them due to the lack of construction material as a result of the IOF siege.

The legal sources revealed that the soldiers used a big number of citizens including women and children as human shields during the destruction process in a bid to ward off any possible resistance attack.

In the West Bank, Jewish settlers on Saturday burnt wheat crops of Palestinian farmers south of Nablus.

Witnesses in the villages of Aseera Al-Shamalia said that the settlers after starting fires in the crops clashed with the land owners in which a 16-year-old Palestinian boy was wounded.

An IOF unit separated the two parties and escorted the settlers but tension was still running high.

Settlers of the Yitzhar settlement are notorious for their constant attacks on nearby Palestinian lands and farmers in a bid to terrorize them into abandoning their lands, which they covet to expand their settlement that was already built on usurped Palestinian lands.

Meanwhile, large numbers of IOF troops stormed a number of suburbs in Nablus city at dawn Sunday and kidnapped a young man from the Old City.

Press sources identified the young man as Mohammed Al-Shilla, adding that the soldiers also burst into several other homes.

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