Israeli Occupation Forces Attacking West Bank Cities, Injuring, Kidnapping Palestinians, Damaging Property, July 10, 2008

Ni’lin: dozens injured as Israeli occupation army continues its cark down

Thursday July 10, 2008 19:43 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

700 people demonstrated in Ni’lin village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah again on Thursday, in defiance of the Israeli occupation army crackdown on protest organized against the illegal wall being built on the village land.

Earlier this week, Ni’lin was subjected to a four day siege and curfew, which failed to break the ongoing popular action to stop the construction of the Wall on village land.

Clashes started as the villagers converged on the site where the Wall is being built on village land. As villagers approached from all directions, Israeli forces stationed in small groups among the olive trees opened fire with teargas and rubber bullets, before attacking with batons. At least 25 people had to be have been injured, three of them seriously.

Among the injured is Jamal Juma’, coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, who has been shot with a rubber bullet in his knee. He told IMEMC:

“It is clear that the occupation forces are adopting a strategy of escalating violence. Today, the military seemed to have orders to suppress the popular protest by force. However, faced with the isolation and land theft of the Wall, the people will continue to resist. We have no other choice.”

The Campaign supports the mobilization and coordination of some 50 popular committees, such as the committee in Ni’lin.

Ni’lin is holding continuous protests against the Wall since over 50 days. Israeli is Construction of the Wall on the western side of the village, and a military base on the southern side will strip Ni’lin of 2,500 dunums (1 dunum = 0.01 hectares) of land.

The construction of a tunnel running under the segregated settler-only road to replace the main entrance of the village takes 200 dunums of land. This will leave the village with just 2,300 dunums, including the land on which the houses are built.

The article was sourced by Stop the Wall campaign.

Ramallah: the Israeli occupation army attacks a hospital and damages property

Thursday July 10, 2008 15:06 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the central West Bank city of Ramallah reported that the Israeli occupation army attacked and ransacked the Ramallah public hospital on Thursday at dawn and ransacked it.

The sources said that soldiers surrounded the hospital then searched the rooms including the ones that had patients inside greating a state of panic among the staff and patients.

During the search witnesses said that soldiers destroyed equipment and doors.

The Palestinian Minister of Health Fathi Abu Meghali issued a statement on Thursday condemning the Israeli attack, he said that this attack is illegal according all international laws of human rights; he added that this attack is aimed at escalating the situation in the Palestinian areas.

The Israeli occupation army attacks local NGOs in Nablus and kidnaps two civilians

Thursday July 10, 2008 14:50 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army attacked the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, during the attacks Israeli occupation troops kidnapped two civilians and ransacked local NGO's.

On Thursday at dawn Israeli troops invaded the village of Akraba, located near Nablus searched homes then kidnapped Waled Diriah, 37, and Mohamed Zuhri, 25.

Later on Thursday morning the Israeli occupation army stormed Nablus city and searched a number of local NGOs that provide charitable aid to the Nablus area.

Local sources said that in addition the army attacked the Islamic Bank in the city and took computers and documents; in addition troops took a school bus that belongs to the Islamic school in the city.

The Israeli occupation army attacks Al-Khader village near Bethlehem

Thursday July 10, 2008 14:44 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Israeli occupation army attacked the village of Al-Khader near Bethlehem and then ransacked the home of the mayor, on Thursday morning.

Witnesses said that several army jeeps invaded the village the surrounded the house of Ramzi Salah, the mayor of Al-Khader, troops searched and ransacked his home then attacked his brothers' homes.

The Israeli occupation army left after some time, no kidnappings were reported.

The village of Al-Khader organizes each Friday a protest at the nearby Israeli settlers road that splits the village from its lands where the army is building the illegal wall.

The Israeli occupation army attacks Hebron, demolishes two homes and kidnaps 7 civilians

Thursday July 10, 2008 13:52 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Israeli occupation army demolished two Palestinian-owned homes and kidnapped seven civilians during separate attacks targeting the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday.

Israeli occupation forces surrounded two homes that belong to Karamah family located in Hebron city center on Thursday morning. Witnesses said that troops forced the family out then demolished the two homes. Karamah told reporters that the Israeli occupation army sounded his brothers homes and his mother's. Troops asked the family to leave the homes then opened fire at them, he said.

The two homes which house more that 20 people were demolished; in addition Mohamed Karamah was taken by the soldiers to an unknown location. During the attack Ied said that his mom Mirfat sustained bruises and had to be moved to the hospital along with another family member after the soldiers attacked them.

The army gave no reason for the attack.

Earlier on Thursday at dawn the Israeli army attacked and searched a number of homes in down town Hebron, during the search the army kidnapped six civilian men and took them to unknown detention camps. Local sources in the city reported that the soldiers damaged the homes they searched in addition to one car.

Palestinians in Jerusalem protest against the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall

Thursday July 10, 2008 00:49 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Marking the fourth anniversary of the advisory ruling of the International Court of Justice in which it ruled that the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall is illegal, hundreds of Palestinians from the Jerusalem district organized a protest on Wednesday in Beit Hanina area in Jerusalem.

The residents carried Palestinian flags and marched in a peaceful protest against the Wall which swallows their land and isolates them.

They said that they have a legitimate right to preserve their Olive trees and the right to access their lands and plant them.

Hatim Abdul-Qader, Jerusalem Affairs advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salaam Fayyad, Abdullah Siyam, deputy to Jerusalem governor, Ali Amer, head of the Wall and Settlements unit at the Prime Ministers’ office and several other Fateh leaders along with Beit Hanina village council head, Ahmad Al-Barsh, also participated in the protest.

The protesters marched along the Wall route in Beit Hanina and chanted slogans demanding the international community to implement the ruling of the International Court of Justice, and demanded Israel to remove its illegal Wall.

Sa’id Yaqeen, member of the National Committee Against the Wall, stated that Beit Hanina was chosen as the central location of the protest as Israeli bulldozers are still working there to install the wall and the Israeli authorities are still annexing Palestinians lands.

Yaqeen added that this Wall will fall, and stated that the Israeli apartheid system and illegal isolation of the Palestinians will fall as the apartheid regime in South Africa fell.

Israeli soldiers surrounded the protesters and demanded them to leave the area after the soldiers declared it as a “closed military zone”.

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