Israeli Occupation Forces Invade Jenin, Villages, Kidnap 7 Palestinians, Impose Curfew on Azzoun, Re-Establish Hebron Roadblocks

Israeli occupation forces invade Jenin and nearby villages, kidnapping one citizen

Date: 12 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:05
Jenin – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin, Jenin refugee camp and the nearby villages of Al-Yamun and Birqin early on Monday morning.

Local sources said that several Israeli occupation military vehicles entered Jenin. Israeli troops ransacked house of Ammar Abu Ghalyon, in the refugee camp.

Separately, Palestinian sources said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Burqin, near Jenin and kidnapped 29-year-old Hilal Makhloof. Sources said the Israeli soldiers fired heavily into the air while they raided the town.

In the town of Al-Yamun, south of Jenin, Israeli occupation forces ransacked several houses including one belonging to Islamic Jihad fighter Bajis Hamdiyya. The soldiers told the family inside the house that Hamdiyya must surrender to the Israeli military or face assassination.

Israeli occupation forces re-impose roadblock it had planned to remove in Hebron

Date: 12 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:43
Hebron – Ma'an –

Israeli bulldozers closed a key road in southern Hebron on Monday morning with earth and rocks after local Palestinian residents forced the road open with a bulldozer on Sunday.

The Israeli occupation military had planned to remove the roadblock, but postponed the implementation of that plan twice. On Sunday, illegal Israeli settlers converged on the roadblock, attempting to block the military from opening the road. Israeli police dispersed the demonstrating settlers.

The road, which links the city of Hebron with a nearby industrial zone, has been closed to since the beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada.

The Israeli occupation government pledged to remove dozens of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank in late March. There are more than 500 such barriers to Palestinian movement throughout the occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces impose curfew on Azzoun Atma
Date: 12 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:33
Qalqilia – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces imposed a curfew on Sunday afternoon on the northern West Bank village of Azzun Atma after a Molotov cocktail was thrown towards an Israeli vehicle traveling on the main road near the village.

Eyewitnesses stated that several Israeli occupation military vehicles raided the village and announced the curfew through loudspeakers

Located on the western side of the Israeli separation wall near the city of Qalqilia, a key road used by illegal Israeli settlers passes through Azzoun Atma.

The village witnesses Israeli occupation military activity almost daily.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap six Palestinians in West Bank raids

Date: 12 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:27
Bethlehem – Ma'an -

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped six Palestinians during raids in several West Bank cities overnight on Sunday and Monday.

According to Israeli sources, the arrestees were from Jenin, Ramallah, and Hebron.

Palestinian security sources told Ma'an's reporter in Nablus that the Israeli occupation troops kidnapped a young Palestinian man after surrounding him in his car in the village of Rujeeb, east of Nablus. Local sources named the arrestee as 26-year-old Mufeed Duwaikat.

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