Israeli terrorist forces kidnap Gaza boy after shooting him, burn wheat fields in Gaza, kidnap a civilian in Beit Sahour

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Israeli forces kidnap Gaza boy after shooting him

Date: 04 / 05 / 2009 Time: 10:43
Gaza – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation terrorist forces kidnapped a young Palestinian after injuring him east of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Local sources said Israeli troops kidnapped 12-year-old Ayman Shamiya after shooting him while he was playing. There was no word about how serious the boy's injuries were.

Israeli forces set fire to wheat and barley fields in Gaza

Date: 04 / 05 / 2009 Time: 12:58
Gaza – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation terrorist forces on Monday morning set fire to Palestinian-owned fields of wheat and barley in Juhr Al-Deek, in the southeastern Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that the fire devoured several fields at the eastern border area of Gaza Strip. Firefighters hurried to the area and began extinguishing the flames.

Israeli troops kidnap a Palestinian from Beit Sahour

Monday May 04, 2009 10:03 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers carried out on Sunday at dawn a fast invasion into Beit Sahour town, near Bethlehem, and kidnapped a 29-year old Palestinian man after breaking into his parents’ apartment, and the apartments of his three uncles.

A member of his family told the IMEMC that the soldiers violently broke into the apartment where Nidal Nassri Bannoura, and his family live, in addition to the apartments of his three uncles, and ransacked them causing damage.

Soldiers forced the family into the living room, and then broke into the room of Nidal, cuffed and blindfolded him before taking him to an unknown destination.

During the attack, the nephews of Nidal were awaken by the violent actions and the loud shouts of the soldiers, and children started screaming and crying while the army continued to search the property.

Palestinian citizen wounded in IOTF tank shelling

[ 04/05/2009 - 10:22 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

A Palestinian man was injured when the Israeli occupation terrorist forces fired tank shells at Abassan area east of Khan Younis district south of the Gaza Strip late on Sunday evening, medical sources reported.

The sources told PIC reporter that the civilian was carried to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis city following the IOF shelling.

They added that the IOF artillery earlier Sunday bombarded east of Jabalia, north of Gaza, with 20 shells without any casualties being reported.

Meanwhile, the Hebrew radio said that Israeli policemen on Sunday arrested a Jerusalemite man for driving 18 Palestinians into the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands without permits. The police detained all 19 individuals for questioning, it added.

The broadcast also disclosed that Israeli police and general security arrested nine Palestinians from Shafa Amr in northern occupied Palestine ten days ago for suspicion of committing acts public disorder and assaulting civilians during the war on the Gaza Strip.

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