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Israeli forces fire at Palestinian stone-throwing youngsters
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GAZA
CITY, November 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli tanks
early Tuesday, November 26, made an incursion into the town of
Deir-el-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip. Late Monday evening,
Israeli forces abducted nine Palestinians during an incursion near
Nablus, and murdered a Palestinian child in the West Bank.
The
Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz reported that several dozen
Israeli tanks and armored vehicles stormed Deir al-Balah under cover of
darkness as military helicopters hovered overhead. Witnesses said
Israeli forces exchanged heavy fire with resistance activists in the
town's refugee camp, before withdrawing after daybreak.
Hospital
officials said at least four Palestinians, including a 14-year-old
youth, were wounded, said the paper.
Agence
France-Presse (AFP) put the number of Israeli armor taking part in the
raid at two bulldozers and two helicopters, adding, though, that a house
was demolished in the raid.
For
its part, the Israeli occupation army said in a communiqué that it
razed the family home of Mohammed Abu-Huli, a leader of the Islamic
Resistance Movement Hamas, said AFP.
Huli
was accused of having been behind a string of retaliatory anti-Israeli
attacks including one on Friday, November 22, in which an Israeli
solider was shot dead near the Gush Katif colonial settlements in the
Gaza Strip.
The
army claimed it had found several mortar shells in the house it
demolished. It further abducted three Palestinian citizens it described
as allegedly wanted for involvement in anti-Israeli attacks.
According
to the communiqué, shots were allegedly fired at invading Israeli
forces but there were no injuries.
The
Israeli army has razed some 80 Palestinian homes since the start of
August. Human rights bodies have hit out at the policy which they
condemn as "collective punishment".
Monday
evening, Israeli forces shot dead an eight-year-old Palestinian boy who
was standing in the street when the occupation army fired at a crowd of
stone-throwing youngsters in the center of Nablus, where clashes erupt
almost daily between army patrols enforcing a curfew and defiant
Palestinian youngsters, medical sources said according to AFP reported.
A
few hours later in the northern West Bank city, Israeli forces opened
tank fire at a crowd of Palestinian civilians, seriously injuring a
39-year-old woman and an 18-year-old young man and lightly wounding
another six, Palestinian security sources said.
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The Israeli army has razed some 80 Palestinian homes since the start of August
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Washington
again registered its alarm Monday over the high number of civilian
casualties during Israel's offensives in the West Bank.
It
singled out for attention the killing over the weekend of a Palestinian
boy and a British U.N. worker in Jenin.
"We've
been deeply concerned about recent civilians casualties resulting from
Israeli military actions," State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said.
However,
Israel has defiantly forged ahead with its illegal practices, announcing
its hunt for Palestinian activists netted 22 people Monday in the West
Bank.
Also
Monday evening, nine Palestinians were abducted by Israeli soldiers
during an incursion near the West Bank town of Nablus, Palestinian
security officials said.
Among
the detained in the incursion by Israeli forces into the village of
Kafer Kalil were two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed
offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
Israeli
forces also mounted an incursion Monday night in the town of Ramallah to
allegedly find Hamas leader, Jack Nazal. They besieged a house where
they claimed he was allegedly hiding.
