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Israeli
Forces Kill 2 Palestinians, Injure 4, Abduct 13 In A Fresh Incursion
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Israeli tank fires smoke screen and blocks Palestinians as
they walk home, during a temporary lifting of a curfew
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GAZA,
July 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – In its continuous
aggression against the Palestinians, Israeli forces killed
Friday, July 12, a 13-year-old boy and a member of the Palestinian
security services, injured 4, and abducted 13 during an incursion near
Deir el Balah in Gaza.
The
13-year-old Palestinian Muween al-Udani was shot dead overnight by
Israeli troops during an incursion near Deir el Balah in the Gaza
Strip, Palestinian security and hospital sources said, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) said.
Muween
al-Udani, who was hit in the head, was the second person to be killed
in the attack, the other being a 25-year-old policeman.
Palestinian
security sources said the man was killed when the army opened fire on
a Palestinian police post.
Four
civilians and two policemen were also wounded. Hospital sources said
two of those injured were in a serious condition, AFP reported.
Israeli
troops entered the area around 1:30 a.m. (2203 GMT Thursday) and
opened fire on a police post. Several houses were also damaged.
Meanwhile,
Israeli troops arrested 13 members of various Palestinian groups
overnight near the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian security
sources said.
They
included six members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, three from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah
movement and two from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, the sources said.
These
11 were arrested at Assirah Ash Shamaliya, while two more, whose
affiliation was not given, were taken prisoner in the village of
Taluza, AFP said.
An
Israeli military spokesman, who only spoke of 10 arrests, claimed the
abducted Palestinians were wanted in connection with armed attacks
against soldiers or Jewish settlers in the West Bank, or planned
attacks in Israel.
Israel
Thursday, July 11, captured a top officer in Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's presidential guard in the West Bank, as army officers warned
that the territory's occupied cities were near boiling point.
Israeli
special forces abducted Colonel Abdelrahim al-Nubani, the head of
Arafat's elite Force 17 guard's security service, in a pre-dawn raid
on a village near Ramallah, Palestinian officials said.
The
Israeli army has said it could stay in the West Bank for months, but
pressure is mounting on it to relieve the terrible conditions of the
population of up to 800,000 people living under curfew and
reoccupation.
Israeli
public television said top army officers had pressed the new army
chief, General Moshe Yahalon, for a partial withdrawal, saying three
weeks of occupation had left towns on the "verge of a volcanic
eruption."
A
Palestinian human rights organization warned that Israel's blockade of
the territories risked creating a "humanitarian
catastrophe".
"The
Israeli occupation forces continue to commit their crimes against
Palestinian civilians and their property," charged the
Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
On
the ground, two Palestinian journalists were wounded by Israeli
gunfire in Jenin when tanks rumbled into the West Bank town as
residents thought the curfew had been lifted. The army said it was
looking into the incident.
And
a Palestinian man who was shot in the head by Israeli troops earlier
this week near Bethlehem died in an Israeli hospital, members of his
family said.
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