Israel Blows Up Eight Palestinian Houses in West Bank
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A Palestinian woman walks through rubble of a house blown up by Israeli troops |
NABLUS,
West Bank, August 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Israeli
occupation army early Sunday, August 4, blew up eight houses in the
West Bank belonging to families of Palestinians who carried out
anti-Israel resistance attacks, sources close to the families said.
There
was no immediate confirmation from the Israeli army, said Agence
France-Presse (AFP). Six of the houses were in the north of
the West Bank, two near Nablus, where the army has been carrying out a
major search operation for activists in the past three days. The other
two were in Al-Khalil (Hebron), in the south of the West Bank.
In
the village of Taluza, north of Nablus, the army dynamited the house
of the family of Mashour Hasaideh, a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s
Fatah movement. He carried out a bomb attack in west Jerusalem on
March 21 in which three people died.
In
the village of Tel, south of Nablus, the army destroyed the house of
the family of Assem Rihan, a member of the armed wing of Hamas, who
died in a bomb attack on an Israeli bus near the settlement of
Emmanuel on the West Bank on December 12 last year, in which eight
Israelis were killed.
His
father and three of his brothers were also arrested by the army, the
sources said.
The
two houses blown up in Hebron belonged to the families of two members
of Hamas, Tarek Doufish and Fahdi al-Douek, responsible for a
resistance attack on the Adora settlement in which four Israelis were
killed on April 27.
Details
on the remaining four houses were not immediately available, said AFP.
Meanwhile,
an armed Palestinian was killed early Sunday on the northern coast of
the Gaza Strip near the Dugit settlement, an Israeli army spokesman
said in a statement.
The
Palestinian, wearing a wetsuit, was spotted by an army observation
post as he left the sea and approached the security perimeter of the
settlement, the statement said. He was allegedly armed with
a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades.
In
Al Khalil on Saturday night, August 3, a Palestinian truck driver
breaking curfew was
killed by Israeli troops, Palestinian medical sources said.
The
driver, Abdel Rahim Al Tawill, 40, was hit by several bullets in the
Harouz sector of the city, which has been re-occupied for several
weeks by the Israeli army. He was evacuated to local hospital where he
died, the sources said.
The
curfew had been lifted for several hours earlier in the day to allow
Palestinians to stock up on supplies. The restriction has not applied
to the about 400 heavily guarded Jewish settlers who live in the area
among 120,000 Palestinians.
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