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Four Female Palestinian Students Abducted By Israeli Forces
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Palestinian
college students questioned at a checkpoint by Israeli soldiers
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NABLUS,
West Bank, June 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israeli
occupation troops abducted another 10 Palestinians overnight,
including four female students from An-Najah University, during their
ongoing reoccupation of the West Bank city of Nablus, an Israeli
military spokesman said Sunday, June 2.
According
to Israeli public radio, the girls were “accused of being involved
in a plan to launch more suicide attacks in the coming days,” Agence
France-Presse (AFP) reported.
All
four were members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah
movement and were arrested with three other Palestinians overnight in
the Rafidyeh refugee camp near Nablus, the radio said.
Meanwhile,
a 23-year-old Palestinian was killed by an Israeli sniper in the old
city of Nablus during the operation on Saturday, Palestinian hospital
sources had said.
“The
10 Palestinians arrested in Nablus were wanted for activities hostile
to Israel,” the spokesman said, without providing further details.
The
city of around 100,000 was still under Israeli control and curfew
Sunday, as the army searched it and the neighboring Balata refugee
camp for a third straight day.
Palestinian
witnesses said the city was invaded Friday, May 31, by infantry units
backed by around 50 tanks, armored vehicles and personnel carriers
with helicopter gun ships providing cover from the air.
The
army has been carrying out almost daily raids into Palestinian towns
since it ended “Operation Defensive Wall”, the vast month-long
West Bank sweep it launched on March 29.
Another
army spokesman said troops had pulled out of two other West Bank
cities, Qalqilya and Tulkarem, which were also raided on Friday.
Israeli
public radio said the army had arrested a total of about 100
Palestinians during its three operations.
Meanwhile,
two mortars landed near a school in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in
the southern Gaza Strip, public radio said. A 10-year-old boy broke
his arm running for cover, it said.
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