The Israeli occupation forces invade Palestinian residential areas, bulldoze agricultural lands,  kidnap civilians, facilitate settler attacks

The Israeli occupation forces invade and bulldoze lands in northern Gaza Strip

Wednesday April 29, 2009 16:56 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded farm lands located near the northern Gaza Israeli borders on Wednesday morning.

Famers told local media that tanks and bulldozers uprooted some trees and destroyed farm lands. They added that tanks opened fire at nearby, no injuries were reported.

Also in Gaza, Palestinian resistance groups announced on Wednesday that they targeted a military vehicle near the northern borders with a road side bomb. The Islamic Jihad announced that their fighters detonated the bomb near an army vehicle; the military reported no injuries among troops.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap Palestinians in Gaza

Date: 30 / 04 / 2009  Time:  11:21
Bethlehem – Ma’an -

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped “a number of Palestinians” who they said approached the Israeli border in Gaza early on Thursday.

The Palestinians were taken for interrogation at an unknown location.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap three Palestinians from Ramallah area

Date: 30 / 04 / 2009  Time:  10:33
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces said they kidnapped three Palestinians from the Ramallah area of the West Bank on Wednesday night.

The military said the “wanted” Palestinians were taken for interrogation. They are being held at an unknown location.

Israeli occupation troops kidnap youth for carrying knife near Ibrahimi Mosque

Date: 30 / 04 / 2009  Time:  10:08
Hebron – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation troops kidnapped a young man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and took him to unknown destination early Thursday morning.

Palestinian security sources identified the boy as 17-year-old Oday Al-Halaika, and said Israeli forces alleged he was carrying a knife.

On Tuesday two youth were detained, also for allegedly carrying knives into the mosque area.

Israeli occupation troops kidnap rights workers, confiscate collected photos and testimony from earlier attack

Date: 29 / 04 / 2009  Time:  21:56
Hebron - Ma'an -

Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped dozens youth and two human rights field workers from Wad Al-Shajina village south of Dura Wednesday.

The researchers were collecting statements from villagers following an attack on the by Israeli troops earlier this week and taking pictures of the scene near a road leading to an Israeli military base in the West Bank.

An Israeli officer ordered the group of the Palestinian Al-Haq and Israeli B’Tselem rights groups to leave the area so researchers and villagers went about 25 meters from the area they had been standing.

“We continued our work,” said Al-Haq researcher Hesham Ash-Sharbati, “then the officer returned and confiscated our ID cards and our video cameras.”

The researchers and a dozen youth nearby were detained. Soldiers took the memory cards from the cameras then released all but one 14-year-old boy whose identity is unknown.

Israeli occupation forces uproot olive trees, bulldoze lands near Salfit

Date: 29 / 04 / 2009  Time:  18:52
Salfit - Ma'an -

The Israeli authorities were bulldozing more than 200 acres of land before several days in the east of Sarta village in Salfit near the Barkan settlement in the industrial zone.

Fat'h in Salfit warned from the seriousness of such attacks by settlers aiming at seizing and confiscating lands in Salfit and the nearby villages.

The Israeli occupation forces bulldozed more than 200 acres and uprooted olive trees in Sarta village where settlers were protected by Israeli army.

Artas villagers appeal for help resisting illegal settlers on local land

Date: 29 / 04 / 2009  Time:  20:57
Bethlehem - Ma'an -

Villagers in Artas sent appeals for help against a bus of settlers and armed Israeli soldiers infiltrating the area Wednesday afternoon.

A hill just outside the area, southwest of Bethlehem, was reportedly overrun by soldiers and settlers for much of the afternoon.

Locals feared the group would destroy the agricultural land, much of which is ready for spring harvest. The village will host a lettuce festival next week to celebrate the crop which is central to the livlihoods of most residents.

Illegal Israeli settler hit and run sees teen girl admitted to hospital

Date: 30 / 04 / 2009  Time:  11:05
Hebron – Ma’an –

An illegal Israeli settler ran down a Palestinian girl near Yatta Thursday morning and fled from the scene as locals brought the girl to hospital.

The teen, identified as 15 year-old Hind Issa Khalil Al-Amur suffered from moderate/severe bruising and was taken to the bruises Yatta governmental Hospital to receive treatment.

Illegal Israeli settlers bulldoze Palestinian owned lands near Salfit city

Wednesday April 29, 2009 16:02 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Illegal Israeli settlers supported by military units have been bulldozing Palestinian farm lands that belongs the villagers of Sartah near the northern West Bank city of Salfit.

Local sources reported on Wednesday that the settlers have already destroyed 50 Acers of land; the famers say the bulldozers uprooted olive trees which is their main source of income. Sartah is located near the illegal Israeli settlement of Burkan , an industrial Israeli settlement originally built on lands stolen from the villagers of Sartah