Thursday 24 December 2009

Palestinian kidnapped, another handed demolition note in villages in Al-Khalil



PIC

[ 24/12/2009 - 11:49 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A Palestinian citizen was kidnapped and another was handed a demolition warning against his home during Israeli raids carried out yesterday and today on the villages of Dura, Yatta and Idna in Al-Khalil district.

Palestinian local sources in the village of Dura said that a large number of Israeli troops stormed at dawn Thursday the homes of Palestinian citizens before kidnapping a young man called Nour Faqoussa.

The sources added that the Israeli troops also broke into and ransacked homes in the village of Idna and interrogated under threat a number of families.

Yatta village was also raided on the same day by Israeli military patrols without any reported kidnappings.

On Wednesday, the IOF troops reportedly handed a Palestinian citizen called Yasser Islimiya from Wad Al-Ballota area in Idna village a demolition warning against his home and water well near the house at the pretext that the house was built on an area used for military purposes.

A number of Palestinian homes in Arroub refugee camp were also ransacked by the IOF troops yesterday without any reported kidnappings.

They also confiscated a car owned by a citizen called Taleb Abu Sudaa during raids on garages in Dura village and searched a store for the manufacture of jewelry in the neighborhood of Bir Al-Mahjar in the city.

In a separate incident, the Hebrew radio reported that Israeli border guards kidnapped Wednesday evening 24 Palestinian workmen aboard a truck at Azzaeem checkpoint on the road to occupied Jerusalem and Maale Adumim settlement.

For its part, the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs in Gaza said that there are 775 prisoners from Gaza in Israeli jails including 131 detainees who spent more than 15 years in prison.

Information director of the ministry Riyadh Al-Ashqar noted that there are 122 prisoners from Gaza serving life sentences in Israeli jails.

Ashqar affirmed that Gaza prisoners have been deprived from seeing anyone of their families or making any kind of contact with them for about three years, adding that they complain of a severe shortage of clothing, blankets and other humanitarian needs they used to receive from their families.


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