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IOF troops arrest three Palestinians in Bethlehem storm Nablus city

Sunday 6-May-2007

BETHLEHEM (PIC)– Three Palestinian citizens including two brothers were rounded up at the hands of the IOF troops at the Abeideyya village in Bethlehem city after those troops raided and ransacked their homes on Sunday Palestinian security sources affirmed.

The three arrested Palestinians were later taken to an unidentified location the sources added.

Another Palestinian citizen was hit and wounded with IOF bullets in Jenin city after fierce armed clashes between the IOF troops  and Palestinian resistance fighters defending the city.

According to local sources and eyewitnesses the wounded Palestinian was left bleeding in front of the Israeli occupation soldiers for long hours before those troops led him to an undisclosed place.

In Nablus city north of the West Bank large numbers of IOF troops backed by tens of military vehicles stormed the city form all discretions late Saturday night in search for alleged wanted Palestinian activist which ignited intense trading of machinegun fire between the intruding troops and Palestinian resistance fighters blocking them.

No arrests were reportedly made during the IOF incursion.

Elsewhere in the West Bank Palestinian resistance fighters shot and wounded an Israeli security guard near Ramallah city. Hebrew media affirmed the assault and acknowledged that the security man was hit in the head and rushed to the hospital for treatment.

In Gaza Strip Palestinian resistance fighters fired at least four of their locally manufactured missiles at the costal city of Ashkilon and Israeli settlements adjacent to the Strip.

They affirmed in a military communiqué they issued in this regard and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC that the rocket attack was in retaliation to the incessant IOF troops’ crimes against the Palestinian people.

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