14 dec 2014
Palestinian prisoner Nahar al-Saadi has entered his 25th day of hunger strike in protest at his solitary confinement.
A brother of the prisoner told the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Sunday that the lawyer said that Nahar is determined to continue his hunger strike until the Israeli jailers end his isolation and allow his family, especially his mother, to visit him in prison.
In a related context, the Palestinian Authority (PA) commission for detainees and ex-detainees said 70 prisoners in Israeli jails went on open-ended hunger strike six days ago in protest at Israel's solitary confinement policy and in solidarity with isolated detainee Nahar al-Saadi.
The PA commission stated on Saturday that the administrations of Israeli prisons threatened the hunger striking prisoners to transfer them to sections of criminal prisoners in different jails as a punitive measure if they persisted in their hunger strike.
The commission said it had received a letter from the prisoners warning that if their jailers carried out their threats, they would expand and escalate their hunger strike.
It noted the Israeli jailers already started to take a number of punitive measures against the hunger strikers, including depriving them of family visits and transferring some of them to other prisons.
The commission stressed that Israel's isolation of more than 30 prisoners is a cruel, arbitrary and illegal punishment, and called for serious and effective international action to end all repressive measures against them.
A brother of the prisoner told the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Sunday that the lawyer said that Nahar is determined to continue his hunger strike until the Israeli jailers end his isolation and allow his family, especially his mother, to visit him in prison.
In a related context, the Palestinian Authority (PA) commission for detainees and ex-detainees said 70 prisoners in Israeli jails went on open-ended hunger strike six days ago in protest at Israel's solitary confinement policy and in solidarity with isolated detainee Nahar al-Saadi.
The PA commission stated on Saturday that the administrations of Israeli prisons threatened the hunger striking prisoners to transfer them to sections of criminal prisoners in different jails as a punitive measure if they persisted in their hunger strike.
The commission said it had received a letter from the prisoners warning that if their jailers carried out their threats, they would expand and escalate their hunger strike.
It noted the Israeli jailers already started to take a number of punitive measures against the hunger strikers, including depriving them of family visits and transferring some of them to other prisons.
The commission stressed that Israel's isolation of more than 30 prisoners is a cruel, arbitrary and illegal punishment, and called for serious and effective international action to end all repressive measures against them.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday rounded up a Palestinian girl and left another youngster wounded following an attack on a peaceful rally staged in the West Bank town of Beitouna.
Activist in the Ann a-Kayd media network, Ahmad Haresh, said the IOF abducted the unidentified girl, a university student, as she joined the non-violent demo.
The celebration was organized by the student blocks at the Birzeit University to mark the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Clashes broke out after the IOF targeted the gathering with randomly-shot waves of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
A Palestinian young man sustained rubber bullet injures while dozens were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas.
Meanwhile, a state of panic overwhelmed Palestinian children in al-Khalil’s Old City after a group of Israeli occupation soldiers, estimated at five, stormed a kindergarten and scoured it.
By-standers at the scene said the OF heavily assaulted ambulance crews as they rushed a Palestinian patient to the hospital.
The attack culminated in a round of search campaigns, combing operations, and provocative investigations reportedly launched across the city.
Activist in the Ann a-Kayd media network, Ahmad Haresh, said the IOF abducted the unidentified girl, a university student, as she joined the non-violent demo.
The celebration was organized by the student blocks at the Birzeit University to mark the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Clashes broke out after the IOF targeted the gathering with randomly-shot waves of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
A Palestinian young man sustained rubber bullet injures while dozens were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas.
Meanwhile, a state of panic overwhelmed Palestinian children in al-Khalil’s Old City after a group of Israeli occupation soldiers, estimated at five, stormed a kindergarten and scoured it.
By-standers at the scene said the OF heavily assaulted ambulance crews as they rushed a Palestinian patient to the hospital.
The attack culminated in a round of search campaigns, combing operations, and provocative investigations reportedly launched across the city.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in occupied East Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem in the West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians, including a former political prisoner.
Local sources in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, said that several military vehicles invaded the Schools Street, and a number of neighborhoods, and kidnapped two Palestinians after searching and ransacking their homes.
The kidnapped have been identified as Ramzi Ahmad ‘Oweisat, 31, and ‘Ala Khaled ‘Oweisat, 22; they were moved to an interrogation facility in the city.
In addition, soldiers invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and searched several homes before kidnaping ‘Odai Hussein Hammash, 26.
The soldiers also broke into the home of ‘Ammar Mustafa al-‘Aker, 31, in Deheishe, and the home of Mahmoud Taqatqa, 26, in Beit Fajjar nearby town, and handed them military orders for interrogation in the Etzion military and security base, south of Bethlehem.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, soldiers invaded Doura town south of the city, and kidnapped a former political prisoner identified as Hamad Bassam az-Zeer.
His father said a large number of soldiers broke into his home, and violently searching it, before assaulting his son Hamad, 27 years of age, and kidnapped him.
He added that his son is a former political prisoner, who was just released from an Israeli detention center less than two months after spending several months held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
Hamad previously spent more than six years in a number of Israeli prisons, detention and interrogation centers.
Local sources in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, said that several military vehicles invaded the Schools Street, and a number of neighborhoods, and kidnapped two Palestinians after searching and ransacking their homes.
The kidnapped have been identified as Ramzi Ahmad ‘Oweisat, 31, and ‘Ala Khaled ‘Oweisat, 22; they were moved to an interrogation facility in the city.
In addition, soldiers invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and searched several homes before kidnaping ‘Odai Hussein Hammash, 26.
The soldiers also broke into the home of ‘Ammar Mustafa al-‘Aker, 31, in Deheishe, and the home of Mahmoud Taqatqa, 26, in Beit Fajjar nearby town, and handed them military orders for interrogation in the Etzion military and security base, south of Bethlehem.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, soldiers invaded Doura town south of the city, and kidnapped a former political prisoner identified as Hamad Bassam az-Zeer.
His father said a large number of soldiers broke into his home, and violently searching it, before assaulting his son Hamad, 27 years of age, and kidnapped him.
He added that his son is a former political prisoner, who was just released from an Israeli detention center less than two months after spending several months held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
Hamad previously spent more than six years in a number of Israeli prisons, detention and interrogation centers.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday evening, four Palestinians during clashes that took place in the at-Tour town, in occupied East Jerusalem, after dozens of soldiers invaded it. Two Palestinians kidnapped in northern West Bank.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them, while the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets.
The army then detained, and violently assaulted several young Palestinian men before kidnapping four of them, and took them to an interrogation center in the city. Two of the kidnapped have been identified as Fadi Talal Sayyad, and Omrat Rabay’a.
In addition, Israeli military sources said the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians trying to cross a military roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The sources said the soldiers searched a Palestinian car, and allegedly located two M16 rifles, adding that one of the Palestinians tried to escape when the soldiers found a bullet in his car, and kidnapped him after firing a few rounds of live ammunition into the air.
According to the army, the soldiers searched the car, located the M16 rifle, and took the two to an interrogation facility.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them, while the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets.
The army then detained, and violently assaulted several young Palestinian men before kidnapping four of them, and took them to an interrogation center in the city. Two of the kidnapped have been identified as Fadi Talal Sayyad, and Omrat Rabay’a.
In addition, Israeli military sources said the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians trying to cross a military roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The sources said the soldiers searched a Palestinian car, and allegedly located two M16 rifles, adding that one of the Palestinians tried to escape when the soldiers found a bullet in his car, and kidnapped him after firing a few rounds of live ammunition into the air.
According to the army, the soldiers searched the car, located the M16 rifle, and took the two to an interrogation facility.
4 summoned to interrogation
Israeli forces abducted two Palestinians and summoned four others from the districts of Hebron and Bethlehem, on Saturday, according to reports by security sources and a local activist.
25-year-old ‘Abd-l-‘Al Abu-Mayyala and Hamza Zablah were taken from the city of Hebron and led to an unknown destination, according to WAFA correspondence.
Forces also raided the Hebron neighborhoods of al-Baten, Khalet al-‘Ein and ‘Asida, where they served former prisoner Ibrajim Bahar, age 24, with a notice to appear before intelligence, after breaking into his uncle’s house.
Ex-detainees Wahid Abu Maria, 42, and Yousef sabarna, age 25, were also given notices to appear before the intelligence after similar raids on their families’ houses.
Several Hebron neighborhoods were also raided, as Israeli forces set up roadblocks at the entrances of Sa‘ir and Halhul, to the north of the city, where they stopped and inspected vehicles with Palestinian registration plates travelling along the way, examining passengers’ ID cards.
Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, forces raided Marah Rabah village, to the south of the city, serving ‘Amr al-Sheikh, age 23, a notice to appear before intelligence after breaking into and ransacking his family’s home.
Israeli forces abducted two Palestinians and summoned four others from the districts of Hebron and Bethlehem, on Saturday, according to reports by security sources and a local activist.
25-year-old ‘Abd-l-‘Al Abu-Mayyala and Hamza Zablah were taken from the city of Hebron and led to an unknown destination, according to WAFA correspondence.
Forces also raided the Hebron neighborhoods of al-Baten, Khalet al-‘Ein and ‘Asida, where they served former prisoner Ibrajim Bahar, age 24, with a notice to appear before intelligence, after breaking into his uncle’s house.
Ex-detainees Wahid Abu Maria, 42, and Yousef sabarna, age 25, were also given notices to appear before the intelligence after similar raids on their families’ houses.
Several Hebron neighborhoods were also raided, as Israeli forces set up roadblocks at the entrances of Sa‘ir and Halhul, to the north of the city, where they stopped and inspected vehicles with Palestinian registration plates travelling along the way, examining passengers’ ID cards.
Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, forces raided Marah Rabah village, to the south of the city, serving ‘Amr al-Sheikh, age 23, a notice to appear before intelligence after breaking into and ransacking his family’s home.
13 dec 2014
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) have decided to isolate a number of Palestinian prisoners for recently declaring a hunger strike, human rights sources revealed Saturday.
In a statement issued today, Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies said that the Israeli authorities have transferred a large number of prisoners into solitary confinement after waging a hunger strike in solidarity with Nahar al-Saadi who stopped eating for 23 consecutive days.
Solitary confinement is the toughest punishment measure imposed by Israeli prison administrations in which Palestinian inmates are denied contact with any other prisoners and detainees for unidentified and prolonged period of time, the center pointed out.
Palestinian isolated detainees are held in solitary confinement amid very difficult and unbearable detention conditions and are deprived of their basic human rights. They are subjected to inhuman treatment and abuses in grave-like prison cells, according to the statement.
The center called on international and local human rights groups to support the hunger strikers’ demands to end the solitary confinement policy.
Meanwhile, the IOA renewed the administrative detention of the leader in Jihad movement Sheikh Tarek Qadan for the second time in a row.
Family sources told a PIC reporter that Sheikh Qadan’s administrative detention was renewed Saturday for the second time after being detained during Israeli large-scale arrest campaign in mid-June throughout the West Bank.
Sheikh Qadan, a father of four children, suffers from many serious health problems as he has previously spent several years behind Israeli bars without trial or charge, the sources added.
He waged a 60-day hunger strike protesting against his illegal administrative detention two years ago.
Since 1989, Qadan was nabbed by Israeli forces for 14 times. His sister Muna Qadan is also held in Israeli prisons.
Around 7,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons, more than 2,000 of whom were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces this summer.
In a statement issued today, Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies said that the Israeli authorities have transferred a large number of prisoners into solitary confinement after waging a hunger strike in solidarity with Nahar al-Saadi who stopped eating for 23 consecutive days.
Solitary confinement is the toughest punishment measure imposed by Israeli prison administrations in which Palestinian inmates are denied contact with any other prisoners and detainees for unidentified and prolonged period of time, the center pointed out.
Palestinian isolated detainees are held in solitary confinement amid very difficult and unbearable detention conditions and are deprived of their basic human rights. They are subjected to inhuman treatment and abuses in grave-like prison cells, according to the statement.
The center called on international and local human rights groups to support the hunger strikers’ demands to end the solitary confinement policy.
Meanwhile, the IOA renewed the administrative detention of the leader in Jihad movement Sheikh Tarek Qadan for the second time in a row.
Family sources told a PIC reporter that Sheikh Qadan’s administrative detention was renewed Saturday for the second time after being detained during Israeli large-scale arrest campaign in mid-June throughout the West Bank.
Sheikh Qadan, a father of four children, suffers from many serious health problems as he has previously spent several years behind Israeli bars without trial or charge, the sources added.
He waged a 60-day hunger strike protesting against his illegal administrative detention two years ago.
Since 1989, Qadan was nabbed by Israeli forces for 14 times. His sister Muna Qadan is also held in Israeli prisons.
Around 7,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons, more than 2,000 of whom were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces this summer.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man from Nahhalin town, near Bethlehem, was shot and seriously injured by Israeli settler fire, after soldiers alleged that he “sprayed an Israeli settler with acid.”
The incident took place at the Husan town junction, to the west of Bethlehem. Israeli Ynetnews said that Palestinians threw acid on seven settlers, wounding two, before reportedly chasing another settler while brandishing a screwdriver. Ynet added that another settler shot and wounded the Palestinian.
The Israeli army said a soldier shot the Palestinian in the leg, causing moderate injury, and allegedly found that he carried a sharp object.
The wounded Palestinian has been identified as Jamal Abul-Majid Ghayada, age 45; he is a former political prisoner who has been repeatedly held captive by Israel. He was moved to an Israeli "internal security center" for interrogation.
In related news, the army kidnapped a Palestinian driver after his car accidentally struck a concrete block, placed by army near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli sources reported that several soldiers were standing in front of a military base “when the speeding driver” crashed into the concrete block, and suffered a mild-to-moderate injury.
The army said the Palestinian is currently under interrogation to determine whether the incident was just a traffic accident or a “deliberate attack”.
The incident took place at the Husan town junction, to the west of Bethlehem. Israeli Ynetnews said that Palestinians threw acid on seven settlers, wounding two, before reportedly chasing another settler while brandishing a screwdriver. Ynet added that another settler shot and wounded the Palestinian.
The Israeli army said a soldier shot the Palestinian in the leg, causing moderate injury, and allegedly found that he carried a sharp object.
The wounded Palestinian has been identified as Jamal Abul-Majid Ghayada, age 45; he is a former political prisoner who has been repeatedly held captive by Israel. He was moved to an Israeli "internal security center" for interrogation.
In related news, the army kidnapped a Palestinian driver after his car accidentally struck a concrete block, placed by army near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli sources reported that several soldiers were standing in front of a military base “when the speeding driver” crashed into the concrete block, and suffered a mild-to-moderate injury.
The army said the Palestinian is currently under interrogation to determine whether the incident was just a traffic accident or a “deliberate attack”.
12 dec 2014
One Palestinian has been shot and injured, by an Israeli live round, during clashes that took place south of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, medical sources have reported.
Eyewitnesses said clashes took place between dozens of local youths and Israeli soldiers, after the army attacked hundreds of Palestinians marking the 27th anniversary of the establishment of Hamas Movement.
They added that the soldiers broke into an Islamic school, where the main gathering was held, smashed the festival podium, removed signs and flags, and attacked several residents, leading to clashes.
Following the attack, hundreds of Palestinians gathered around the school area before the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, and several rounds of live ammunition, moderately wounding one Palestinian by a live round in his leg.
Scores of residents received treatments for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Soldiers also installed several roadblocks in the area, searched and interrogated dozens of Palestinians, and prevented them from crossing.
In addition, according to media sources affiliated with the Hamas movement, Palestinians security officers arrested, and detained, many members and supporters, while heading to the celebrations of Hamas.
The sources said the security forces attested Hotheifa Nizar Ramadan, one of the sons of legislator Nizar Ramadan, who is imprisoned by Israel, in addition to at least twenty other Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses said clashes took place between dozens of local youths and Israeli soldiers, after the army attacked hundreds of Palestinians marking the 27th anniversary of the establishment of Hamas Movement.
They added that the soldiers broke into an Islamic school, where the main gathering was held, smashed the festival podium, removed signs and flags, and attacked several residents, leading to clashes.
Following the attack, hundreds of Palestinians gathered around the school area before the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, and several rounds of live ammunition, moderately wounding one Palestinian by a live round in his leg.
Scores of residents received treatments for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Soldiers also installed several roadblocks in the area, searched and interrogated dozens of Palestinians, and prevented them from crossing.
In addition, according to media sources affiliated with the Hamas movement, Palestinians security officers arrested, and detained, many members and supporters, while heading to the celebrations of Hamas.
The sources said the security forces attested Hotheifa Nizar Ramadan, one of the sons of legislator Nizar Ramadan, who is imprisoned by Israel, in addition to at least twenty other Palestinians.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and wounded a Palestinian young man after he reportedly threw a chemical substance on Israeli settlers near Bethlehem on Friday.
Media reports said that the young man was hit with four bullets and his condition was described as moderate to serious.
Hebrew media reported that six Israelis sustained light to moderate injuries in the attack, which took place near Gush Etzion settlement bloc.
They said that Israeli ambulance vehicles rushed to evacuate the wounded while the young man was arrested.
Media reports said that the young man was hit with four bullets and his condition was described as moderate to serious.
Hebrew media reported that six Israelis sustained light to moderate injuries in the attack, which took place near Gush Etzion settlement bloc.
They said that Israeli ambulance vehicles rushed to evacuate the wounded while the young man was arrested.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday afternoon detained two Palestinian youths from al-Khalil city while a horde of extremist Jewish settlers reportedly a closed a road in Bethlehem.
Coordinator of the popular anti-settlement committee Mohamed Awadh said the IOF apprehended Jihad Khalil Al-Alami and Bilal Habes al-Alami, both 19, at the main entrance to Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil city and took them to an anonymous destination.
The IOF troops closed the main entrance to the village and searched a number of Palestinian homes set near an Israeli military watchtower, Awad added.
Meanwhile a gang of Israeli fanatic settlers, escorted by IOF troops, blocked a country road in Khader town to the south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
WAFA news agency quoted coordinator of the anti-settlement committee in the town Ahmad Salah as saying that the settlers used a bulldozer to close the road with mounds of dirt and rocks.
A few months ago, the IOF had reportedly closed all roads in the town, blocking Palestinian farmers’ access to more than 3000 dunums of their land.
Coordinator of the popular anti-settlement committee Mohamed Awadh said the IOF apprehended Jihad Khalil Al-Alami and Bilal Habes al-Alami, both 19, at the main entrance to Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil city and took them to an anonymous destination.
The IOF troops closed the main entrance to the village and searched a number of Palestinian homes set near an Israeli military watchtower, Awad added.
Meanwhile a gang of Israeli fanatic settlers, escorted by IOF troops, blocked a country road in Khader town to the south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
WAFA news agency quoted coordinator of the anti-settlement committee in the town Ahmad Salah as saying that the settlers used a bulldozer to close the road with mounds of dirt and rocks.
A few months ago, the IOF had reportedly closed all roads in the town, blocking Palestinian farmers’ access to more than 3000 dunums of their land.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday captured three Palestinian ex-prisoners during a campaign in different areas of Bethlehem, south of the West Bank.
A PIC correspondent quoted local sources as saying that the IOF arrested the Palestinian citizen Adel Hamdan Shawawra, 47, in Shawawra village just a few hours after he was released by the Palestinian Authority.
Shawamra had served a total of 15 years in Israeli jails.
The IOF also stormed Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city, and kidnapped the Palestinian ex-prisoners Shadi Abu Akr, 30, and Ibrahim Abu Sourour, 28, after raids on their homes.
Abu Akr and Abu Sourour had spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails and the PA preventive security apparatus also jailed them for some time recently before releasing them about one month ago.
A PIC correspondent quoted local sources as saying that the IOF arrested the Palestinian citizen Adel Hamdan Shawawra, 47, in Shawawra village just a few hours after he was released by the Palestinian Authority.
Shawamra had served a total of 15 years in Israeli jails.
The IOF also stormed Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city, and kidnapped the Palestinian ex-prisoners Shadi Abu Akr, 30, and Ibrahim Abu Sourour, 28, after raids on their homes.
Abu Akr and Abu Sourour had spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails and the PA preventive security apparatus also jailed them for some time recently before releasing them about one month ago.
The Israeli public prosecution rejected Thursday evening a court decision to release Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, family sources said.
The sources pointed out that the Israeli public prosecutor appealed against the court’s decision under the pretext that Adnan had not yet completed his previous sentence.
Earlier Thursday, Salem military court ordered the release of Khader Adnan after spending five months in administrative detention.
Adnan was arrested more than once in Israeli jails where he went on one of the longest hunger strikes in Palestinian history in 2012 to protest his administrative detention before his release on April 17, 2012.
However, Adnan was re-detained in the Jenin village of Arraba on July 8, 2014 as part of Israel's large-scale arrest campaign in occupied West Bank mid-June.
The sources pointed out that the Israeli public prosecutor appealed against the court’s decision under the pretext that Adnan had not yet completed his previous sentence.
Earlier Thursday, Salem military court ordered the release of Khader Adnan after spending five months in administrative detention.
Adnan was arrested more than once in Israeli jails where he went on one of the longest hunger strikes in Palestinian history in 2012 to protest his administrative detention before his release on April 17, 2012.
However, Adnan was re-detained in the Jenin village of Arraba on July 8, 2014 as part of Israel's large-scale arrest campaign in occupied West Bank mid-June.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped two Palestinians. Settlers block an agricultural road near Bethlehem.
Mohammad Awad, spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, stated that the soldiers kidnapped Jihad Khalil al-‘Allamy, 19, and Bilal Habes al-‘Allamy, 19, after stopping them at the main entrance of the town.
Awad added that the soldiers broke into, violently searched and ransacked several homes in areas close to the military tower, installed near the main entrance of the town.
In related news, a number of extremist Israeli settlers closed a Palestinian agricultural road leading to farmlands belonging to residents of the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, said the extremists used a bulldozer to place rubble and rocks, blocking the road leading to the ash-Sha’af area, south of the town.
Salah added that, a few months ago, Israeli soldiers closed all agricultural roads leading to more than 3000 Dunams (741.31 Acres) of Palestinian lands in Ein al-Qassis, Thahr Az-Zayyah and Wadi al-Ghaweet areas, belong to al-Khader.
Mohammad Awad, spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, stated that the soldiers kidnapped Jihad Khalil al-‘Allamy, 19, and Bilal Habes al-‘Allamy, 19, after stopping them at the main entrance of the town.
Awad added that the soldiers broke into, violently searched and ransacked several homes in areas close to the military tower, installed near the main entrance of the town.
In related news, a number of extremist Israeli settlers closed a Palestinian agricultural road leading to farmlands belonging to residents of the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, said the extremists used a bulldozer to place rubble and rocks, blocking the road leading to the ash-Sha’af area, south of the town.
Salah added that, a few months ago, Israeli soldiers closed all agricultural roads leading to more than 3000 Dunams (741.31 Acres) of Palestinian lands in Ein al-Qassis, Thahr Az-Zayyah and Wadi al-Ghaweet areas, belong to al-Khader.
