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Franciscan priests and Catholic nuns pass by Israeli army soldiers who have closed off Manger Square during three days of army operations and curfew
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WEST
BANK, November 24 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Israeli
occupation forces forcefully entered an old mosque in the city of
Tubas in Jenin, in the northern section of the West Bank after placing
it under siege.
It
claimed that there were wanted Mohammad Al-Qilani, of the Islamic
resistance movement Jihad inside the mosque, Agence France-Presse
(AFP) reported.
The
Qatari-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel said that the occupation
forces blew up the mosque’s main gate and used the imam as a human
shield as they widely searched the entire area inside.
Eye
witnesses said that the forces did not find what they were looking for
inside the mosque. Israeli has imposed a curfew for the third
consecutive day in Tubas which has been reoccupied by the soldiers.
Meanwhile,
Christian leaders said that the Israeli occupation forces has placed a
heavy siege around the Church of Nativity on Sunday morning and
stationed 20 of it's soldiers inside, stopping the residents from
praying inside the church and to hold mass, celebrating a religious
occasion.
Eyewitnesses
reported that the army spread its forces around the church and that
the tanks were less than 20 meters away from the church’s main gate.
Meanwhile,
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat told Egyptian radio station
“Sawt Al Arab” that the occupation of the West Bank will not bring
peace and security to the Israeli people.
“Violence
will only breed violence,” Erakat said adding that returning to the
political modes of negotiation is the only path to bring peace to the
region.
In
another development, a 70-year-old Palestinian man died Sunday after
he tripped and fell while fleeing Israeli tank fire at the entrance of
the reoccupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, medics and witnesses
said.
Ahmed
Shteyeh, 70, was trying to travel via Nablus from his village of Salem
in the north to Tel, south of the city, to visit his daughter when an
Israeli tank opened fire on a Palestinian crowd trying to enter the
city, which is under strict curfew.
Shteyeh
fell while fleeing the fire, hitting his head and dying shortly
afterwards of his injuries, the same sources said.
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