The Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian houses goes non-stop

By Samer Khuwayera, IOL Palestine Correspondent

NABLUS, March 3 (IslamOnline.net) – Covered by Apache helicopters, dozens of Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers staged an incursion into the old town of Nablus, the West Bank, early on Monday, March 3, paving the way for the Israeli occupation troops to abduct more Palestinians and captured up to 15 Palestinian female school children to use them as human shields.  

Making their way to school, the children were horrified by Israeli troops, who captured them to be used as human shields in their incursion.

“My daughter is one of those captured. She went to school early morning but never came back,” a bereaved mother told IslamOnline.

The Israeli occupation soldiers occupied a number of high-rise buildings, which were turned into barricades for the Israeli snipers after forcing their residents out, Palestinian sources told IslamOline.

The Israeli soldiers also abducted three Palestinians from the village of Beit Aiba, west of Nablus, under the pretext that they are active members of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas and planning to carry out “attacks on Israeli targets.”

In Qalqilia, the Israeli occupation troops demolished the house of Palestinian activist Fathi al-Khattib, accused by Israel of being the mastermind of the Park Hotel operation in the coastal city of Netanya, which left 29 people killed 140 injured.

For their part, Israeli military sources said the Nablus incursion marks the end of a large-scale operation, which has been brought to a halt due to snow and torrential rains, said the Israeli radio.

The sources said the Israeli troops will continue storming Nablus until they “arrest wanted Palestinians” and completely destroy the Palestinian infrastructure.

A human catastrophe on a large-scale is on the making in the Palestinian territories, in general, and in Nablus, in particular, citing shortages of food stuff, especially, children milk, as well as shortage of medicines, said Palestinian medical sources.

On Wednesday, February 19, the Israeli occupation troops launched a barbaric incursion into the old town of Nablus, during which they bulldozed flat a myriad of Palestinian houses and shops, leaving nine people killed, dozens others critically wounded and abducting some 150 Palestinians.

Earlier on Monday, eight Palestinians including a woman and a child were killed and some 35 wounded during an Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip.

On Sunday, March 2, the Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in Khan Yunis refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, and wounded some 32 others.