A Palestinian teen of Ramallah killed by Israeli occupation forces

Wednesday October 15, 2008 10:17 by IMEMC Staff - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed late on yesterday night a 17-year-old teenager from the Jalazoan refugee camp to the north of the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Medical sources reported that Mohammad Zaid, 17, was killed and two other teens were wounded by the Israeli gun fire in the Jalazoan refugee camp.

Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers opened their heavy gun fire on a number of boys while walking down a street between the Beit Eil Israeli illegal settlement and the Jalazoan camp's school.

Witnesses added that the soldiers took the victim's corpse to unknown destination.

No further details were reported.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military kidnapped yesterday night four Palestinian residents , including three from the Al-Khader town of West Bank city of Bethlehem and a fourth from the Dair Abu Mesha'al village of Ramallah city.

Witnesses said that an Israeli occupation forces contingent stormed the Al-Khader town and detained Mohammad Salah and Ahmad Salah, two brothers, then took them to unknown destination.

Illegal Israeli settlers stone Hebron area schoolchildren, part of a 'pattern of attacks'

Date: 15 / 10 / 2008  Time:  16:00
Hebron – Ma’an –

Illegal Israeli settlers stoned a group of a dozen Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home from school south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday afternoon, after an Israeli patrol had left them unaccompanied.

According to witnesses two settlers waited for the group of 11 children, all between the ages of six and eleven, on a road in the village of At-Tuwani, next to the settlement Ma’on. During the attack the settlers chased the children toward the nearby village of Tuba.

The stoning took place after an Israeli army patrol left the children to walk on their own.

Four young Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli forces in the West Bank

Date: 15 / 10 / 2008  Time:  09:35
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped on Wednesday morning four Palestinians in the West Bank town of Al-Khadr, south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and in Dair Abu Mesha’al south of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Local sources in Al-Khadr told Ma’an that more than ten Israeli military vehicles raided the old city at dawn. Israeli troops ransacked several houses for inspection before they seized three young men. The sources identified the detainees as Muhammad Abdul Salam Salah in his twenties, whose brother was arrested on Saturday at the Jericho checkpoint after attending the football match between Al-Khadr and Sur Bahir.

In the same neighborhood, Israeli forces detained two brothers, Ahmad and Muhammad Hassan Salah.

Separately, in Dair Abu Mesha’al, a Palestinian young man was arrested after Israeli force raided the village. However, the arrestee’s identity remained unknown.