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Israeli tanks surrounding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity
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OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Israeli
occupation army invaded Jenin Friday, November 22, killing a
Palestinian boy, as it reoccupied the West Bank town of Bethlehem and
the southern Gaza Strip, killing a Palestinian policeman with tank
fire.
Dozens
of Israeli tanks stormed the northern West Bank town of Jenin and its
refugee camp early Friday, and armed clashes broke out with
Palestinian resistance, Palestinian security sources told Agence
France-Presse (AFP).
Israeli
forces shot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy as he was throwing
stones at invading armored vehicles, Palestinian medical sources told
AFP.
Israeli
forces surrounded a house in the camp where they claimed a wanted
Islamic Jihad activist is suspected to be hiding, added AFP.
Fifteen
kilometers (nine miles) south of Nablus, Israeli armored vehicles
raided the town of Tubas, and soldiers conducted house-to-house
searches for elements of Palestinian resistance, Palestinian security
sources said.
And
in Nablus, also on the northern West Bank, Israeli forces destroyed
the family houses of two Palestinian activists accused of having
allegedly carried out anti-Israeli operations earlier this year, in
which they both died.
The
occupation army bulldozed the family house of Imad Shkeirat, a member
of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat's resistance Fatah movement.
The
army also bulldozed the family house of Amjad Qutub, who was
affiliated to the resistance Islamic movement Hamas.
The
Israeli army has been increasingly using house demolition since August
in a bid to quell the two-year-old Palestinian Intifada against
Israeli occupation.
More
than 80 houses have been destroyed since August and human rights
groups say the policy amounts to "collective punishment",
said AFP.
Most
West Bank towns and villages have been reoccupied by the Israeli army
since June.
In
the West Bank, meanwhile, the Israeli army launched Friday massive
offensives within Bethlehem, an Israeli military source told AFP.
Israeli
armor had stormed Bethlehem from various directions, then re-occupied
nearby Beit Jala, clamping down a curfew, AFP added.
The
occupation army took up positions near the entrances to Deisheh
Palestinian refugee camp, Palestinian officials told AFP.
Israeli
forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in what army radio
described as a move aimed at preventing Palestinian resistance from
taking refuge there.
Israeli
forces also killed a Palestinian policeman early Friday near the
Netzarim settlement south of Gaza City.
The
victim, 26-year-old Sahni Abu-Hussein, was working in the sector that
was shelled by the Israeli army, a Palestinian hospital source told
AFP.
But
an army spokesman claimed Abu-Hussein was allegedly going to attack
the settlement when he was gunned down by Israeli army fire.
Meanwhile,
dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles stormed Al-Qarada near
Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli
forces blew up the home of Younes al-Artal, head of the Islamic
resistance group Hamas for the southern Gaza Strip, and also destroyed
the house of another Hamas activist, Palestinian security officials
said.
Israeli
raids came in the wake of a Palestinian resistance bus bombing attack
in West Jerusalem Thursday, November 21, that killed 11 Israelis and
the attacker.
Earlier,
army radio had quoted high-ranking military officials as saying an
offensive on the entire city of Bethlehem was a reprisal for
Thursday’s operation whose
performer was identified as coming from the southern West Bank town.
The
blast in Jerusalem was first claimed by the resistance group Hamas and
then later by Islamic Jihad.
Israeli
security forces have named the Jerusalem bomber as Nael Abu-Hlayel,
23, from Bethlehem while his relatives said his brother and cousin had
already been abducted at the family home in Dura, a village close to
Al-Khalil (Hebron).
Far-right
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz
gave the army green light permission to reoccupy Bethlehem Thursday
night, said AFP.
Palestinian
security personnel had evacuated their bases in Bethlehem in
anticipation of an offensive as Israeli soldiers occupied 25 homes
Thursday night in the village of Al-Khader by the southern entrance to
Bethlehem, security sources said.
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