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Palestinian boy walks by an Israeli occupation tank in the West
Bank town of Nablus
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With
additional reporting by Mostafa Al-Sawwaf, IOL Palestine correspondent
OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, November 13 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli
forces reoccupied Nablus on Wednesday, November 13, abducting some 30
people after more than 150 armored vehicles and tanks invaded the
northern West Bank town overnight.
Palestinian
security forces told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the armored
vehicles were backed by helicopter gunships and enforced a siege on the
town, concentrating on the Qasba neighborhood in the old town of Nablus.
Israel
radio said that the takeover included the nearby Askar and Ballata
refugee camps with backing from sappers and tanks.
Witnesses
in Nablus told IslamOnline’s correspondent that occupation forces did
not face any resistance by Palestinian fighters, although they could
hear sounds of explosions, most likely explosive containers put in the
way of the Israeli forces by Palestinian resistance fighters.
Hospital
sources in the Rafidia hospital confirmed that there were no casualties
so far.
Meanwhile,
Israeli helicopter gunships carried out a raid on Gaza City early
Wednesday, targeting a metal workshop belonging to the Faseeh family and
that had already come under attack two days earlier in the eastern
Al-Zeitoun district, Palestinian security sources said.
They
said five rockets were fired. A generator was also hit in the raid.
The
attack destroyed the workshop, and left it in flames which spread to
several nearby shops and residential homes.
IslamOnline’s
correspondent also reported that a rocket fell in a cemetery in the
Tufah district in downtown Gaza City, but did not explode.
The
Israeli army, questioned by AFP, confirmed the attack, claiming the
workshop had been used to make arms.
The
Israeli military has often charged such workshops are used by
Palestinian militant groups to produce a variety of weapons, including
crude missiles, used in attacks on Jewish settlements, troops or even
Israel itself.
