IOF soldiers launch arrest campaign in Jenin including Jihad leader,raze 10 Palestinian homes in Khalil

IOF soldiers launch arrest campaign in Jenin including Jihad leader

[ 05/05/2011 - 11:32 AM ]

JENIN, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up a number of Palestinian citizens in Jenin district at dawn Thursday including a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement.

Relatives of the Jihad leader Tarek Qadan in Araba village, south of Jenin, said that the IOF soldiers in a civilian car broke into his home, locked up his wife in one of the rooms, then took him blindfolded and handcuffed to an unknown destination.

Qadan served ten years in Israeli occupation jails and was last released on 21/10/2008.

IOF troops also stormed the village of Siri east of Jenin city and arrested the university student Tarek Al-Faqih after wreaking havoc in his family home and taking some of his personal belongings.

Sources in Anza village, near Jenin, told the PIC reporter that an IOF unit stormed the village and burst into the home of Iyad Barahme, got all inhabitants out and searched it then field interrogated them without making any arrests.

IOF troops raze 10 Palestinian homes

[ 05/05/2011 - 11:14 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli occupation army flattened ten Palestinian homes in Al-Khalil district on Thursday morning, local sources said.

Locals reported that hundreds of Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the village of Um Nir, southeast of Yatta town in Al-Khalil district, and provided protection for huge bulldozers that razed houses and damaged roads and infrastructure.

They said that the Israeli occupation forces turned the village into a closed military zone, adding that the demolition process was still in full swing until Wednesday noon.

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