Israeli occupation forces kidnap 14 civilians from the West Bank

Monday November 09, 2009 16:08 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

14 Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces on Monday during military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.

Local sources reported invasions and homes searches in Bethlehem, and Hebron cities, southern West Bank, as well as Jenin and Nablus, in the north and Ramallah city central West Bank.

Medical sources in Hebron city added that a Palestinian man sustained moderate wounds on Monday morning when troops manning a checkpoint near the city attacked him.

The Israeli occupation army radio announced that all those kidnapped men were taken to military detention camps for questioning.

In June of this year the Israeli occupation forces announced that it will stop its attacks targeting Bethlehem, Ramallah and Nablus cities; however since then attacks targeting those cities never stopped.

Mada: IOF assaults on journalists rude violation of freedom of expression

[ 09/11/2009 - 10:45 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)--

The Palestinian center for development and media freedoms "Mada" has condemned the Israeli occupation forces' (IOF) persistent assaults on journalists in violation of international laws and norms.

Mada, in a press release on Sunday, said that the IOF physical attacks on reporters represented a "rude" violation of the freedom of expression.

It charged that the IOF soldiers beat up those journalists because they want to publish the truth about the IOF violations of and aggression on the Palestinian people and land.

The center called for putting Israeli leaders and soldiers, who assault journalists, on trial, noting that the latest such attacks were against the cameramen of Reuters and AFP on Saturday in the village of Iraq Burin, south of Nablus city.

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