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IOF troops storm West Bank cities kidnap more Palestinian citizens

Sunday 27-May-2007

BETHLEHEM (PIC)–The IOF troops’ daily arrest campaigns across the West Bank didn’t come to a halt as large numbers of IOF troops stormed the Duhaisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem city at dawn Sunday and kidnapped three Palestinian youths Palestinian security sources in the city affirmed.

According to the sources Israeli occupation soldiers raided and ransacked a number of Palestinian homes in the camp and wreaked havoc on them before arresting the three youngsters and leading them to the Etizion detention center near the city.

In Qalqilia city a Palestinian security source revealed to the PIC that more than 20 IOF military vehicles have raided the city’s suburbs amidst intensive machinegun shooting and sound bombs at dawn Sunday.

Palestinian citizen Khaled Abu Amra was arrested by those troops as he attempted to cross a roadblock installed by the Israeli soldiers at the city’s eastern entrance the source added.

Around 800 Palestinian laborers from different cities in the West Bank were also apprehended in the occupied city of Jerusalem which is part of the West Bank but was severed from it by the separation wall that Israel installed around it. The arrested Palestinians were job-seekers looking for their families’ sustenance.

The IOA alleged that the workers didn’t possess working permits and that they were illegally staying in the city.

According to the Hebrew radio at least 100 of the arrested laborers were led to the Israeli intelligence department for interrogation and the rest were sent back to the PA-run lands.

In Gaza Strip Palestinian resistance fighters fired two homemade missiles at the IOF troops’ positions near Kissufim crossing affirming that the attack was in retaliation to the incessant Israeli aggressions on the Palestinian people.

On Saturday night Palestinian fighters form the Nasser Salahudin Brigades of the PRC assaulted an IOF military outpost and engaged the Israeli soldiers in fierce armed clashes wounding two of them according to the PRC claims.

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