Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap 6 Palestinians in the West Bank, 4 Gaza Fishermen, Raid Jenin Shops

Israeli occupation forces kidnap six Palestinians overnight

Date: 23 / 06 / 2009 Time: 10:20
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

The Israeli occupation forces said on Tuesday morning that they kidnapped six Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank overnight.

In a statement the army said they were kidnapped from the Qalqiliya area and from the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, which is known for its weekly nonviolent demonstration against Israel’s separation wall.

The Palestinians are being held at an unknown location.

Israeli Navy kidnaps four fishermen

Tuesday June 23, 2009 00:15 by IMEMC News

The Israeli Navy kidnapped on Monday four Palestinians fishermen, including two brothers, as they were fishing in Palestinian territorial waters in Gaza.

The four were kidnapped when an Israeli Navy gunship attacked their fishing ship. The four were identified as Saddam Abdul-Bari, his Brother Odai, in addition to Hassan Ramadan and Mohammad Al-Noury Sultan.

The four were forced into a navy ship and were taken to the Ashdod port.

Local sources reported that the Israeli Navy obstructed two fishing boats in Al-Soudaniya area.

The sources added that the soldiers beat the fishermen and confiscated their boats.

The attack is among ongoing attacks carried out by the Israeli Navy against Palestinian fishermen as Israel is preventing them from fishing in Palestinian territorial water.

The attacks include shelling fishing boats, chasing the fishermen and kidnapping them.

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Israeli navy abducts 4 Palestinian fishermen at sea

[ 23/06/2009 - 10:47 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli navy on Monday intercepted and abducted four Palestinian fishermen of one family including two brothers off the coasts of Gaza Strip while fishing, local sources reported.

They added that the Israeli gunboats ordered the fishermen out of their boats and took them to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

The Israeli navy routinely harasses the Palestinian fishermen to block their fishing off the Gaza coast employing various means including shooting, intercepting boats, damaging fishing equipment and kidnapping fishermen.

In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces assaulted on Monday a 26-year-old Palestinian worker with their rifle butts, eyewitnesses said.

They added that the laborer was hospitalized in view of the severe beating that did not spare his head along with other parts of his body.

IOF troops at dawn Tuesday rounded up six Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Qalqilia.

Israeli occupation soldiers overrun coffee shop, workshops in Jenin

Date: 22 / 06 / 2009 Time: 16:51
Jenin – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation soldiers overran a coffee shop and a number of stone workshops at the Al-Shuhada area of southern Jenin on Monday.

Soldiers checked the identities of a number of workers and residents, but no one was detained, according to local sources.

Witnesses reported that five Israeli patrols, accompanied by an Israeli intelligence unit, broke into the coffee shop and demanded that people there identify themselves.

Meanwhile, others checked IDs and erected a military checkpoint in Al-Shuhada but soon removed it, detaining no one.

IOF troops storm home of MP, kidnap her son

[ 22/06/2009 - 04:01 PM ]

EL-BIREH, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces after midnight Sunday stormed the home of MP Dr. Mariam Saleh in El-Bireh city and took away her son Salah Musleh, a computer engineering student.

Local sources said that a big number of IOF soldiers encircled the home of the MP before savagely bursting into it.

Dr. Saleh said that the soldiers severely beat her sons the lawyer Abdullah Musleh and Salah before kidnapping Salah, who is in his fourth academic year.

She charged the IOF soldiers with savagely breaking into her family home and with confiscating her private papers and her personal mobile phone.

Hamas MPs denounced the "painful incident", asserting that all attempts to dissuade the lawmakers from performing their duties would end up in failure and that they would continue to serve their people regardless of all obstacles.

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