30 Palestinians Injured in Khalil, Including a Child Losing Eyesight, 29 Kidnapped in Jerusalem, September 29, 2013

30 Palestinians Injured in Khalil, Including a Child Losing Eyesight, 29 Kidnapped in Jerusalem

September 29, 2013


29 young men taken prisoners yesterday in Jerusalem Old City	5-year-old child loses eyesight in IOF shooting in Khalil

5-year-old child loses eyesight in IOF shooting in Khalil

[ 28/09/2013 - 02:15 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

Around 30 Palestinians were wounded in Al-Khalil on Friday in confrontations between Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and citizens including a five-year-old child.

Local and security sources told Quds Press on Saturday that six out of the thirty wounded persons were hit with live bullets in their feet.

They said that the child Musa'ab Sarahne, 5, was hit with a rubber-coated bullet in his eye while walking alongside his mother and sister in front of Fawar refugee camp. They added that his sister was also injured in the IOF shooting.

The sources quoted doctors as telling Sarahne family that the child had lost sight in his left eye.

29 young men taken prisoners yesterday in Jerusalem Old City

[ 29/09/2013 - 11:18 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation police and security apparatuses continued on Saturday its detention and suppression campaign in occupied Jerusalem and its neighborhoods and kidnapped 29 young men on allegations of their participation in protests and events during the last few days in support of the Aqsa Mosque.

Lawyer Hamdi Meswaddah told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that many students and young men who went on a march in protest of the Israeli violations against the Aqsa Mosque in Sultan Suleiman street last Friday were taken prisoners.

Meswaddah added that most of these young men were kidnapped from their homes in the old city of Jerusalem.

He noted that Israeli policemen and soldiers occupied the rooftops of Palestinian homes overlooking the Aqsa Mosque and its vicinity, and took pictures of passersby, adding that other group of troops on the ground brutally attacked young men in the old city and took them prisoners.

According to other local sources, Israeli police men and border guards raided several homes in Al-Sa'adiya neighborhood in the old city and handed its Palestinian residents written orders warning them of arrest if they refused to allow the police to use their rooftops at any time.

Hamas: 129 Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces last week

[ 29/09/2013 - 11:19 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Hamas Movement said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped 129 Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem last week in the context of a recent campaign aimed at suppressing any Palestinian uprising for the Aqsa Mosque.

According to a report issued by Hamas on Sunday, the detention campaign during last week has been the most ferocious since the start of the current year.

It explained that 45 Palestinians of those detainees were from Al-Khalil, 41 others from Jerusalem and the rest from Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Nablus, Jenin and Bethlehem.

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