[ 08/02/2009 - 12:07 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Five Palestinian homes were destroyed in Alezariya suburb, east of the occupied city of Jerusalem, in preparation to expand the biggest Israeli settlement in the West Bank Ma'ale Adomim, sources in the anti-wall popular campaign confirmed.
The dwellings, the sources added, belong to the Bedouin Al-Salayleh family, which is a branch of the Jahhaleen tribe in the area. The sources added that big numbers of IOF troops surrounded the area and declared it a "closed military zone" before they started demolishing tents and mobile caravans of the local people, all of them are shepherds.
"We received two tents from the Red Cross, and immediately erected them on the ruins of our homes, and although the two tents weren’t enough for us, we will stay here and we will never leave our land at all cost", said a member of the displaced family.
The demolition came two days after the Israeli occupation authority announced it had finished implementing the infrastructure of E-1 project of expanding the illegal colony, which will lead to displacing tens of Palestinian families from the Jahhaleen and Ka'abneh tribes.
In a related matter, tens of Palestinians demonstrated in Nablus city against an Israeli decision to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in Tana village, east of Nablus city.
The IOA used false pretexts to seize and demolish Palestinian homes, especially in Jerusalem, in favor of the apartheid, separation wall it is building in the West Bank.
In Nazareth city in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands, around 367 Palestinian workers were rounded up by the Israeli occupation police alleging they have no work permits.
According to the Hebrew radio, all but 12 of the arrestees were deported to the West Bank, while the other workers were led to an undisclosed place for interrogation on allegations they were wanted by Israel.
Arrest campaign against Palestinian workers in the 1948-occupied Palestinian areas noticeably increased in the past few weeks in the shadow of the Israeli security alert in preparation for the elections.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, six Palestinian teenagers were arrested by the IOF troops in Sa'eer village, north of Al-Khalil city, on allegation they hurled stones at Israeli soldiers bursting into the village.
Last week, the IOF troops rounded up the disabled Palestinian teen Yousef Ghassan Suefan of the neighboring Al-Shuyookh village, and severely beat him before retaining him in harsh detention conditions.
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