Israeli forces fire at Palestinian stone-throwing youngsters

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.

The Israeli army has razed some 80 Palestinian homes since the start of August

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.  

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