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Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap Seven Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Destroy Hebron Power Plant, Attacks Protesters in Jerusalem

Februay 1, 2010

IOF soldiers arrest seven Gazans in January including three minors

[ 31/01/2012 - 02:20 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped seven Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on its borders and at the crossings in January 2012 including thee minors, a human rights activist said on Tuesday.

Riyadh Al-Ashqar, a researcher with the Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners, said that the detainees included two 15-year-old children and a 17-year-old minor.

He said that 28-year-old Bassam Rihan was arrested at Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing while heading to the West Bank for medical treatment.

Ashqar said that the others were detained on the eastern borders of the Strip at the hands of special Israeli forces.

He said that despite the IOF withdrawal from Gaza yet its troops still target Palestinians on crossings, inside the Strip, and at sea, recalling that the IOF troops rounded up 40 Palestinian fishermen in 2011.

The researcher noted that the IOF soldiers had earlier detained two cancer patients while on their way for treatment in the West Bank.

He appealed to all international institutions to put an end to Israeli violations of Palestinian rights.

IOF soldiers kidnap liberated prisoner, Hamas leader among others

[ 31/01/2012 - 02:22 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped an ex-prisoner who was liberated in the exchange deal with Hamas movement in Al-Khalil province and a 50-year-old lecturer in Jenin among others on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter in Al-Khalil that IOF soldiers besieged the house of Sheikh Ayman Al-Sharawne, 38, in Deir Samet village, forced his family out in the cold weather, and then took him away.

They said that the soldiers broke furniture during their savage search of his and his family’s homes. Sharawne was sentenced to life in jail in 2001.

IOF soldiers arrested the lecturer Mohammed Al-Sayyed from his home in Jenin city at dawn Tuesday after questioning him inside it. He is a well-known Hamas leader.

Local sources told the PIC that IOF soldiers stormed homes near to the lecturer’s house.

Sayyed, who suffers many diseases, was arrested at the hands of PA security elements for ten times and questioned tens of times.

Local sources said that five citizens including a teen were arrested in Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqilia, a young man in Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, and man in Tamon village, Tobas province, after searching his house.

IOF soldiers were also seen severely beating a Palestinian man near Daheria village, south of Al-Khalil. Locals said that the man was hospitalized.

For their part, Jewish settlers tried to kidnap a Palestinian man south of Al-Khalil on Tuesday under gun threat but he managed to escape after leaving behind his car, local sources said.

They said that Jewish settlers also assaulted citizens in the Old City of Al-Khalil and Tal Rumaida in downtown on Monday night.

IOA serves demolition notices in Al-Khalil village

[ 01/02/2012 - 10:18 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) served demolition notices to owners of 14 houses in Daheria village to the south of Al-Khalil on Tuesday.

Bajes Al-Tal, in charge of popular committees in the village, said that the targeted houses were in the eastern area of the village.

He said that the IOA claimed that the building of those houses was made without permit, noting that the village was in area C in which Israel enjoys full control.

Tal said that most of those houses were inhabited by many Palestinians while some of them were still under construction.

IOA destroys Spanish-financed power station in Al-Khalil village

 [ 01/02/2012 - 10:41 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) decided on Tuesday to knock out the sole electricity generation station in a village in Al-Khalil.

Local sources said that the IOA informed the inhabitants of Minaizel village to the east of Yatta town south of Al-Khalil that the solar energy station would be demolished.

Ratib Al-Jabour, the coordinator of the popular committees in Yatta, told Quds Press that a team of the Israeli civil administration handed the decision.

He pointed out that the solar power project was financed by the Spanish government a few years ago.

Jabour said that 40 Palestinian families in the small village would be deprived of power in the event the IOA carried out its threat, adding that the demolition would take the village back to the “stone age”.

The activist further noted that the IOA served a demolition notice to a citizen in the same village that his home would be razed at the pretext that it was built without permit.

Serious injury reported in Israeli police clashes with Jerusalemites

[ 01/02/2012 - 12:08 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Dozens of Jerusalemite youths were injured, one of them seriously, in clashes with Israeli occupation policemen in Aisawiya village east of occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday evening.

Local sources said that the policemen took 20-year-old Ayub Obaid from his house at the pretext he threw stones at them, which ignited the clashes.

PIC reporter quoted eyewitnesses as saying that dozens of young men were wounded in the clashes that continued till a late hour on Tuesday night.

They said that a young man was hit with a rubber bullet in his forehead while many others were hit with teargas canisters and stun grenades.

Israel plans to confiscate 650 dunums in occupied Jerusalem

[ 31/01/2012 - 02:22 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli planning and construction committee has decided to confiscate 650 dunums of land in occupied Jerusalem to establish two garbage dumps.

A researcher specialized in settlement activity, Ahmed Sub Laban, said that the first junkyard would be established on 500 dunums in the area between Enata and Aisawiya, describing the area as a valley 745 meters deep.

The other plan envisages seizing 150 dunums of land between Kafr Akab and Bir Nabala to the north of occupied Jerusalem to establish another rubbish dump, he added.

Another researcher, Amran Al-Resheq, said that the two garbage dumps would negatively affect the environment, adding that the Israeli occupation authority did not care less about the health of the Arab inhabitants.

 

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