Israeli occupation forces detain Palestinian boys for disrupting possible house demolition in Jerusalem

Date: 16 / 11 / 2008  Time:  18:44
Jerusalem – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a number of young Palestinian boys in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Sunday for confronting Jerusalem municipality workers who were preparing to demolish houses in the neighborhood.

Witnesses said the detainees are all under the age of thirteen.

Israeli occupation police demolished three houses in Silwan and one in the Shu’afat neighborhood on 5 November, provoking clashes with Palestinian youths that left seven injured. Fifteen people were arrested.

Ninety-seven other houses are slated for demolition in the Al-Bustan area of Silwan.

Israeli occupation forces raid Nablus, kidnap Al-Aqsa Brigades activist

Date: 16 / 11 / 2008  Time:  19:26
Nablus – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces raided Nablus on Sunday, where soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades, according to witnesses.

Al-Aqsa affiliate, 18-year-old Mohammad Fayez Mustafa Shawish, is also a member of the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s security services, Ma’an has learned from sources in Nablus.

He had reportedly been wanted for more than a year by the Israeli occupation army, despite that he had spend there months in a Palestinian intelligence center in Nablus. He was apparently never pardoned by Israel.

Before his capture, an Israeli occupation special forces unit, under the guard of military vehicles, raided the Al-Qaysariya neighborhood in Nablus.

Israeli occupation soldiers kidnap children in east Jerusalem

Sunday November 16, 2008 21:36 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported on Sunday that Israeli occupation soldiers and policemen kidnapped 10 Palestinian children in Al-Bustan neighborhood, near Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, and took them to an unknown destination.

The sources added that the ages of the detained children are no more than 13, and that they were abducted for allegedly obstructing the work of municipality workers who were preparing for demolishing more Palestinian homes in the neighborhood.

The Jerusalem Municipality is preparing to demolish nearly 97 homes in the neighborhood as it is planning to build gardens for “the Jewish temple” which Israel claims it exists under tAl-Aqsa mosque.

Israeli occupation forces have no right, under international law, to arrest Palestinians who are living under Israeli military occupation.

Ten days ago, the residents of the neighborhood clashed with soldiers as they brought bulldozers to demolish the homes and the army managed to demolish one home.  

Six Israelis wounded as Palestinian homemade shells land on southern Israel

Sunday November 16, 2008 18:30 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli media sources said on Sunday evening that six Israelis were wounded , including two moderately and four others with shock, after two Palestinian homemade shells landed on the Sderot town, near the Gaza Strip.

The Almojahideen Brigades, a Gaza-based resistance faction, announced today evening that it fired two homemade shells onto the nearby southern Israeli town of Sderot.

Meanwhile, spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza , Abu Mojahed, announced unilaterally end of the ceasefire agreement with Israel, saying that his faction's response to the Israeli army actions, will not be confined to firing homemade shells.

The media sources added that the Israeli cabinet is currently considering the fate of a five-month-old truce deal with resistance factions in Gaza, as Israel keeps Gaza crossings closed totally, for the past thirteen days.

A cabinet meeting is expected on Wednesday, the sources confirmed, with no further details reported.