Israeli Occupation Terrorist Forces Wound Palestinian Child, Kidnap 4 Others in Rafah, Critically Wound US Citizen, Tristan Anderson, in Ni'lin

IOTFs wound Palestinian teen, kidnap others in southern Gaza

[14/03/2009 - 09:44 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation terrorist forces (IOTF) wounded a Palestinian youth and kidnapped four others during an incursion into eastern Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Friday night, locals reported.

Security sources told PIC reporter that the IOTF soldiers backed by tanks and bulldozers advanced east of Rafah in Shoaka town and fired at citizens.

They said that Salah Abu Sunaima, 18, was wounded while four other citizens were kidnapped and taken to the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.

In the West Bank, IOTF troops stormed the village of Jayous, southeast of Qalqilia city, closed all its entrances and imposed a curfew.

Local sources said that the troops blocked worshippers from attending the Friday congregation and dispersed the weekly peaceful march organized by the villagers to protest IOTF confiscation of their lands to build the separation wall.

The pointed out that the soldiers severely beat up a number of villagers including a mentally retarded youth.

IOTF troops critically wound US citizen in anti-wall march in Na'lin

[ 14/03/2009 - 08:24 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Palestinian sources reported that an American citizen was critically wounded during the weekly protest against the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall held Friday afternoon in the Na'lin village, west of Ramallah, when the Israeli occupation terrorist forces (IOTF troops as usual assaulted Palestinian citizens and foreign activists participating in the march.

The sources added that activist Tristan Anderson was directly hit in the head with a tear gas grenade fired by IOTF troops and consequently taken to an Israeli hospital inside the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948.

IOTF troops also fired rubber bullets wrapped in a hard rubber shell and a number of tear gas and sound canisters at the protesting crowd leading to the injury of five participants and suffocation cases among many others

In the Bil'in village, IOF troops quelled another weekly peaceful anti-wall march organized by the popular committee against the wall and settlement in protest at Israel's decision to annex 142 dunums of Palestinian lands in Bil'in and the villages of Deir Qedis and Kherbata Bani Harith in favor of the expansion of the apartheid wall.

A'hed Al-Khawaja, the coordinator of the anti-wall committee, said that the IOTF troops used rubber-wrapped metal bullets in addition to tear gas and sound grenades to subdue the crowd causing four injuries and a number of suffocation cases among the protesters.

Four Palestinian citizens were badly injured Friday in the Ma'sarah village, south of Bethlehem, when IOF assaulted them with rifle butts during a non-violent anti-wall protest in which hundreds of Palestinians and foreign activists participated.

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