Israeli Occupation Forces Invade Qabatiya, Qaryout, and Southern Rafah, Kidnapping Seven Palestinains

Homes ransacked in dawn incursion in Qabatiya

Date: 17 / 05 / 2008 Time: 18:48
Jenin - Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces invaded the West Bank town of Qabatiya on Saturday morning at dawn in search of members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades.

Sources in Islamic Jihad said that five Israeli armored vehicles entered the town. Israeli soldiers broke into two homes belonging to members of the Al-Quds Brigades. The troops ransacked the two houses, damaging furniture and interrogating the families of the Palestinian fighters.

Israeli occupation army kidnaps four teenagers accused of attacking settlement

Date: 17 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:29
Nablus – Ma'an –

The Israeli occupation military invaded the West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, on Friday afternoon, kidnapping four young Palestinians.

The head of the village council, Abdul Nasser Badawi, told Ma'an that the Israeli occupation army fired sound grenades and deployed teargas in residential areas of the village.

Badawi identified the abductees: 16- year old Mahmoud Nafez al Bum, 15-year-old Rabee' Jaser Al-Bum, 17-year-old Mu'men ash Shaikh Musa, 16-year-old Mohammad Usama.

The Israeli occupation army accused the teenagers of setting fire in a watchtower and a number of electric poles in the illegal Israeli settlement of Alielah.

No injuries were reported.

Israeli occupation forces withdraw from southern Gaza after kidnapping three civilians

Saturday May 17, 2008 17:23 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli occupation army left the city of Rafah located in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday midday.

Witnesses said that Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded Al-Shouka area east of Rafah today at dawn. They added that Israeli bulldozers uprooted vast areas of farmlands, and destroyed property in the area.
Local sources stated that five Palestinians were kidnapped by the invading forces, two were released later on and three were taken to an unknown location.

Medical sources reported no injures in the attack.
Palestinian resistance groups said that their fighters clashed with the invading forces, both sides reported no injures.

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