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Israeli
Army Abducts 10 More Palestinians In Nablus
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With
additional reporting by Khaled Mamdoud, IOL Cairo Staff
NABLUS,
West Bank, June 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Israeli army
put a stranglehold on the West Bank city of Nablus and a neighboring
refugee camp for a third straight day Sunday, carried out house
searches and abducted dozens of Palestinians.
Israeli
occupation troops abducted 10 Palestinians overnight in Nablus, an
Israeli military spokesman said Sunday. Palestinian officials said
dozens had already been detained.
"The
10 Palestinians arrested in Nablus were wanted for activities hostile
to Israel," an army spokesman said, without providing further
details, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The
Israelis use the term “arrest”, in reference to their crack down
on Palestinians in occupied territories.
“The
Israeli army has no jurisdiction in Area A, or territories under full
Palestinian control. So, Palestinians detained by Israel in such areas
are abducted, not arrested”, according to an Egyptian Law Professor,
who asked not to be named.
Nablus,
city of around 100,000 is under Israeli control and curfew, the latest
to be temporarily re-occupied in a series of aggressions that followed
Israel's massive month-long West Bank operation on March 29.
Nablus
was invaded Friday by infantry units backed by around 50 tanks,
armored vehicles and personnel carriers with helicopter gun ships
providing cover from the air.
The
Israeli army has also systematically been sweeping the Balata refugee
camp on the city's southeastern edge, rounding up hundreds of
civilians for questioning and conducting house-by-house searches by
breaking down dividing walls to avoid being targeted by Palestinian
resistance activists.
A
house in Balata owned by an assassinated Palestinian resistance leader
- and allegedly used as a bomb-making factory - was blown up, the
Israeli army claimed.
The
house belonged to Mahmud Titi, a local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades in nearby Nablus, who was assassinated by the army on May 22,
according to Palestinian witnesses.
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The
night before, soldiers dynamited and razed with bulldozers the home of
the family of a Palestinian martyr bomber related to Titi in Nablus,
the army and witnesses said. The house belonged to the family of Jihad
al-Titi, Palestinian, 18 years old, his address was Balata Refugee
Camp, last thing he did in this life was a martyr operation that
killed him, two Israelis and wounded 50 others in Petah Tikva, Tel
Aviv, Monday, May 27.
He
kept his promise to avenge the murder of his cousin Mahmoud Titi by
Israeli occupation forces.
A
23-year-old Palestinian was also killed by an Israeli sniper in the
Old City of Nablus Saturday, Palestinian hospital sources had said.
The
Israeli army has been carrying out almost daily raids into Palestinian
towns since it ended Operation Defensive Wall.
A
Palestinian man, who was shot in the neck during an Israeli raid on
Nablus during that sweep, died of his wounds in a Jordanian hospital,
officials in the West Bank said.
Another
army spokesman said troops pulled out of two other West Bank cities,
Qalqilya and Tulkarem, also raided Friday.
Israeli
public radio said the army arrested a total of about 100 Palestinians
during its three operations.
Four
of those arrested in Nablus were female students from An-Najah
university accused of being involved in a plan to launch more suicide
attacks in the coming days, Israeli public radio said.
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