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Palestinian women inspects her house which was demolished by
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NABLUS,
West Bank, October 31 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Three
Palestinian children were wounded in a village near the West Bank town
of Nablus Thursday, October 31, when Israeli troops fired at stone
throwers, whereas the Israeli army destroyed four homes belonging to the
families of Palestinian activists in the Jenin refugee camp.
According
to Palestinian witnesses and medical sources, two children were
wounded by shrapnel, one in the eye and the other in the leg, while a
third was hit in the back by a (live) bullet fired by Israeli occupation
forces, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Palestinian
witnesses said the incident occurred when Israeli troops entered the
village of Tell, three kilometers (two miles) south-west of Nablus, to
impose a curfew.
A
group of Palestinian children began throwing stones at a number of army
jeeps, and the soldiers opened fire at them, sources said.
The
Israeli army said it would check for details of the incident.
In another incident, the army
flattened the homes of four Palestinian activists from the Islamic Jihad
(resistance) group and Fatah movement, sources said.
An
Israeli army spokesman confirmed the homes had been razed as part of its
policy of demolishing the houses of activists to discourage further
attacks.
"The
destruction of these homes constitutes a message addressed to suicide
bomber terrorists and those who send them," an Israeli army
spokesman said.
Israel
calls Palestinian resistance against illegal occupation
"terrorism".
Jenin
and its refugee camp in the northern West Bank were reoccupied by the
Israeli army last Friday.
The
Israeli army demolished more than 70 homes belonging to Palestinians
since the start of August.
The
policy has been denounced by human rights groups as a form of collective
punishment.
The
Israeli army, meanwhile, abducted 22 Palestinians early Thursday
morning, according to Israeli army radio.
Elsewhere,
about 50 tanks entered the Palestinian village of Qabatia near Jenin,
Palestinian security sources said.
The
Israeli army was searching from house to house and had ordered men to
come out in the street for questioning.
Late
Wednesday night, a Palestinian police intelligence officer was shot dead
by Israeli troops near Nablus, Palestinian police said.
They
said an Israeli army special unit opened fire at Aid Mansur, 37, in his
village of Kafr Qalil, but the circumstances were unclear.
An
army spokesman, contacted by AFP, had no immediate information on the
incident.
In
another development, the Israeli army claimed Thursday that Israel
arrested a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah last
summer who had entered the Jewish state on a forged U.S. passport.
Ayub
Fawzi was jailed in June as he plotted attacks on Israel, the Israeli
army alleged.
"As
a result of accumulated intelligence information and investigations, a
clear picture has emerged of the attempts which Hezbollah has made to
carry out terror attacks inside the state of Israel," claimed the
Israeli army.
"Ayub's
mission to Israel is a new stage in the efforts which Hezbollah has
invested in perpetrating terror attacks inside Israel."
The
Israeli army described Ayub as a 38-year-old Shiite Muslim from Lebanon
and veteran of Hezbollah, who "has taken part in various Hezbollah
operations and activities, and is responsible for numerous casualties
among civilians."
However,
the army did not name the attacks he participated in or why it had
withheld the announcement of his arrest until now.
Ayub
(according to Israeli claims) arrived in Israel October 2000, shortly
after the start of the Palestinian Intifada, and spent time in Al-Khalil
(Hebron) in the southern West Bank where he made contacts with at least
one activist "who aided him in his missions" which included
scouting sites for hiding explosives.
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