15 Palestinians Kidnapped in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces, on July 2, 2008

Israeli occupation army invades several areas in the West Bank and kidnaps 10 Palestinian civilians

Wednesday July 02, 2008 13:41 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources said that the Israeli occupation army has conducted at least 11 attacks targeting a number of West Bank cities and towns on Wednesday at dawn.

The sources said that during those attacks 10 Palestinian civilians were kidnapped. The invasions were reported in Nablus city were five civilians were kidnapped. In addition to Jenin where troops took two civilians while three were kidnapped from Hebron city and nearby villages.

The Israeli occupation army stated that all those kidnapped were on what the army calls a "Wanted List" Palestinian sources confirmed all those kidnapped are civilians.

IOFs kidnap paralyzed youth along with six others in Nablus

[ 02/07/2008 - 08:54 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces at dawn Wednesday rounded up seven Palestinians in various Nablus suburbs including a paralyzed youth, local sources reported.

They identified the paralyzed man as Othman Al-Khalili, and added that the invasion troops wreaked havoc in a number of citizens' homes in Nablus city and nearby villages.

Around 50 army vehicles stormed the villages of Beit Forik and Beit Dajan east of Nablus and declared them closed military zones, locals said.

Meanwhile, locals in Marada village, north of Salfit, said that IOF bulldozers uprooted and buried hundreds of olive trees in a bid to pave the way for the construction of a highway that had previously led to the confiscation and/or destruction of hundreds of dunums of Palestinian cultivated land lots in Salfit district.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 15 Palestinians in the West Bank

Date: 02 / 07 / 2008 Time: 09:25
Bethlehem - Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped fifteen Palestinians during raids in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem on Wednesday morning, Israeli sources said.

In Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, 20 Israeli military vehicles arrived. Israeli occupation troops ransacked several Palestinian homes before kidnapping Khadir Wishahi and Abdul-Latif Atiq, security sources said. Atiq is from the nearby village of Birqin, and he was in the camp visiting relatives at the time.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that Israeli troops fired randomly at houses in the camp, and detonated sonic bombs inside homes during house-to-house searches.

In Nablus, Israeli occupation forces detained six young Palestinian men from the Ad-Dahiya area south of Nablus after storming several houses.

Palestinian security sources told Ma'an's reporter that among the abductees was a physically disabled man, 27-year-old Uthman Al-Khalili.

The sources added that more than 15 Israeli occupation military vehicles invaded the city from several directions after 2am. They ransacked more than 15 homes in the old city of Nablus, Nuns street, Al-'Amiriya, and An-Nasser street.

The security sources named the identified the other arrestees as 25-year-old Isma'il Isma'il, 21-year-old Muhammad Abu Al-Sa'adi, 24-year-old Khalid Al-Masri, 24-year-old Rashid Al-Khalili, and 32-year-old Imad Al-Dawaya.

***Updated at 10:33 local time

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