MAGHAZI (PIC)– A large number of IOF troops mounting armored vehicles and bulldozers advanced on Wednesday morning to the east of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip and bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian citizens’ lands according to Palestinian security sources.
The sources confirmed that the IOF troops kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens after storming one of the houses and bulldozed a wide range of olive trees adding that Israeli military reinforcements are still reaching the area from the east of the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank IOF troops at a late hour Tuesday encircled the house of Palestinian MP Nizar Ramadan who is imprisoned in Israeli jails then stormed and ransacked his house at an early hour on Wednesday before kidnapping his son Montaser 21 in addition to other 11 Palestinians in Al-Khalil city.
Ramadan’s family reported that the IOF troops also confiscated three mobile phones and two personal computers used by Ramadan’s children for their school studies pointing out that the IOF troops violently broke into the house and caused panic amongst the children.
The IOF troops also kidnapped at dawn Wednesday three Palestinian citizens from the Nablus city including the son of the imprisoned MP Sheikh Hamed Betawi a member of the parliamentary change and reform bloc after storming and ransacking a number of homes in the city the PIC reporter stated.
The PIC reporter also said that the IOF troops established on Wednesday morning a barrier checkpoint at the only entrance of Merdah town from the northern side and searched whoever enters and leaves the town.
The IOF troops had imposed strict siege on the Merdah town where it is surrounded by barbed wires from all sides and there is an iron gate to the east of the town that is controlled by the IOF troops.
In another development Sheikh Hijazi Abu Sneineh the supervisor of the Ibrahimi Mosque compound in Al-Khlil city southern West Bank underlined that the IOA decided the closure of the mosque for five days as from Thursday the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at the pretext that there are Jewish festivals to be held during those five days.
In retaliation to the Israeli ongoing atrocities against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas announced in a communiqué received by the PIC that it fired at an early hour Wednesday six mortar shells on the Israeli Soufa military outpost southern Gaza Strip.
The same armed wing also on Wednesday fired three mortar shells at the IOF military post in Kissufim in central Gaza.
