- 1 jan 2011
Center: Escalation in Israeli violations in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli violations of human rights in Jerusalem escalated in December, particularly in the Silwan neighborhood, according to a study by a community center.
Throughout the month, 13 Palestinians were detained in Silwan including nine minors, according to a report released Saturday by the Wadi Hilwa Information Center.
Six of the minors were detained from their homes, and forces detained three from the streets. Four of the children told the center they were beaten and humiliated by Israeli interrogators and one said he was forced to sign papers in Hebrew without knowing their content.
Further, five Palestinian homes were demolished in Sur Bahir and Silwan and six families received demolition orders in Silwan and Ath-Thuri, the report said.
Israeli municipal council workers demolished two homes in Silwan and one in Sur Bahir. In the latter neighborhood, two families were forced to demolish their own homes.
Silwan witnessed several confrontations between local youths and Israeli forces, police officers and settlers in December. The center said at least eight Palestinians were shot and injured by rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity tear-gas canisters, which Israeli forces say are riot dispersal mechanisms.
Among those injured were a cameraman and a five-year-old girl who was run over by an Israeli-plated car in Wadi Hilwa.
According to the report, clashes erupted after Israeli authorities announced a plan to evict 26 Palestinian families from their homes in Silwan. Israeli forces attempted to evict the Abu Nab family, resulting in confrontations around Bat Al-Hawa.
A visit by members of the extremist Israeli National party to Jonathan Home in Silwan sparked two days of clashes, the center said.
Meanwhile, Silwan grassroots organizer and Fatah official Adnan Gheith was advised by his party to withdraw an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court and will be deported from Jerusalem for four months starting January 12.
According to activist group the Popular Struggle Organizing Committee, Gheith's lawyer was informed that the expulsion was intended to curb the official's political activity, "since the security apparatus considers him to be a central instigator of unrest in Silwan," a statement said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347186
Child, Paramedic Wounded By Army Fire During Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest
As dozens of residents and international peace activists held their nonviolent weekly protest against the Annexation Wall in Nabi Saleh village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers violently attacked them and fired rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs leading to several injuries.
Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs at the protesters, and that one child, identified as Islam Al Tamimi, was hit by a gas bomb in his foot, while a paramedic identified as Nariman Al Tamimi, was hit by a gas bomb in her shoulder.
Dozens of residents were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation but did not require hospitalization.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers attacked resident Abdul-Hakim Awad and repeatedly kicked and punched him as the army attacked a protest in support of the Palestinian detainees at the Ofer Israeli prison.
One home was partially burnt due to army fire, and an elderly man suffocated by smoke resulting from the fire. The man is in his eighties, and has been already receiving treatment for respiratory and other health issues.
The army sealed all of the entrances of the village since early morning hours Friday, and prevented the reporters from entering it.
Also on Friday, dozens of residents were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the army attacked the weekly nonviolent protests in Al Ma'sara village, near Bethlehem, Bil'in and Ni'lin villages near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The protesters called for national unity among the Palestinians and their factions, and chanted slogans against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall, settlements and the ongoing Israeli violations against the residents, their homes and their lands in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied territories.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60323
Bil'in protester dies after inhaling tear gas
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) A Palestinian woman died Saturday morning after suffering intense tear-gas inhalation Friday during an anti-wall rally in Bil'in in the central West Bank, medics said.
Palestinian medical sources in Ramallah said 36-year-old Jawahir Abu Rahmah, from Bil'in, died at Ramallah medical compound. Abu Rahmah inhaled large amounts of tear gas fired by Israeli forces who forcibly dispersed a non-violent rally protesting the separation wall.
Abu Rahmah's brother Bassem was killed in April 2009 by a tear gas canister fired at his chest by an Israeli soldier during a village demonstration.
Friday's rally was attended by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Organizers said more than 1,000 demonstrators attended the final protest of the year calling for an end to Israel's land confiscations.
Israeli forces met the protest with tear-gas canisters, hitting one teenager in the face and sending him to hospital. Military officials said they were unaware of injuries, and that around 250 participated in the protest.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the area was declared a closed military zone in advance of the protest "in an effort to prevent an escalation of the violent and illegal riot" that the village hosts weekly.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347087
URGENT: Jawaher AbuRahmah, 36, from Bil'in passed away this morning after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas yesterday.
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Maria 2 jan 2011
Israeli forces arrest 2 children (6 and 7 years old) in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Sunday detained two Palestinian children in Jerusalem's Old City, witnesses said.
Khaled Dweik, 6, and his 7-year-old cousin Mohammad Suheil were playing hopscotch in the Bab Al-A'mud area. They were throwing stones as part of the game and accidentally hit an Israeli soldier who then arrested them, locals said.
Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, in yet another flare up of violence in the volatile region.
The victim, identified as Mohamed Daraghme, was killed at the Hamra checkpoint early Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent told AFP.
The 21-year-old was gunned down after Israeli soldiers refused to let him pass through the checkpoint, prompting a quarrel.
Daraghme was reportedly unarmed. He was killed almost instantly.
The checkpoint was closed temporarily after the incident.
The killing comes two days after a Palestinian woman named Jawaher Abu Rahma was fatally tear-gassed during a protest in the city of Ramallah.
The demonstrators were calling for the removal of Israel's separation wall in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority has condemned the killing as a war crime. Her family lawyer has also accused the Israeli military of covering up the case.
Israeli soldiers have been using the prohibited deadly teargas canisters against Palestinian protesters in recent weeks.
The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign's most recent map of the Wall's path, finalized in November 2003, reveals that when completed in its entirety, nearly 50 percent of the West Bank population will be affected by it through loss of land, imprisonment into ghettos, or isolation into de facto Israeli annexed areas.
Tel Aviv began constructing the wall in 2000. The International Court of Justice says the wall is illegal and should be taken down.
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Maria 3 jan 2011
Tears and gas: a call to mobilise
Jawaher Abu Rahmah passed away on January 1 of the new year after she inhaled fatal levels of teargas fired from Israeli soldiers during a peaceful protest at Bil'in the day before [EPA]
As 2010 came to a close in the West Bank under the regular, weekly cloud of teargas experienced among the villages bordering Israel's 1967 Green Line, http://bit.ly/hOy8he 2011 started with the death of Palestinian woman from the village of Bil'in and the arrest of 19 Israeli activists in the Tel Aviv area.
The new year is just days underway and already it is clear that this will be the year that building ethno-nationalist rhetoric and legislation turned into concrete action.
Since the election of the right-wing Netanyahu government, the weekly West Bank demonstrations in the town of Bil'in http://bit.ly/ex1ZBi have faced greater military repression, while the small but persistent radical Israeli left has moved from isolated protest to bringing the West Bank joint resistance model into Israel.
Following the killing of Bil'in's first resident - Bassem abu Rahmah in 2009 - the continued jailing of village popular committee leader Abdullah Abu Rahmah, and a series of night time arrest raids without a murmur of protest from greater Israeli society, marginalised Israeli activists are now appealing outside their boarders and pushing forward the international boycott movement.
(2:00) Anti-Wall protest in West Bank
Tears and gas
After the announcement of the death of Jawaher abu Rahmah on the morning of January 1 from the complications of massive teargas exposure during the previous day's demonstration, hundreds of Israeli leftists descended on the the ministry of defence, blockading the main road in front of it.
Later that evening another group of 25 Israelis woke the US Ambassador at his home in Herzliya chanting, 'returning' empty tear gas canisters and condemning the supply of teargas and other weapons to Israel by American companies and the government.
The evening ended with eight people arrested at the road block (they were later released without charge) and an additional 11 in jail from the protest at the Ambassador's residence, facing a laundry list of charges including a weapons possession charge for the discharged teargas canisters.
The past months have seen an escalation in the crackdown on a small Israeli anti-occupation movement that has grown weary of engaging a public that is consumed by a mix of hyper nationalism and obliviousness to the reality of Israel's expanding occupation of the West Bank and siege of Gaza.
Sentenced to three months in prison on December 27 for participating in a cycling protest during the 2008 Gaza war, Jonathan Pollak is the latest target of Israeli campaign against those amplifying the Palestinian call for justice. Pollak, a veteran of Palestinian popular resistance and a spokesperson for the coordinating committee for popular struggles across the West Bank, is a founder of the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall - which has worked with Palestinian grassroots struggles since the Second Intifada. http://bit.ly/h5qmms
"It will be the justice system itself, I believe, that will need to lower its eyes in the face of the suffering inflicted on Gaza's inhabitants, just like it lowers its eyes and averts its vision each and every day when faced with the realities of the occupation," Pollak told his packed sentencing hearing in Tel Aviv.
Donning a t-shirt with the image of Black
Consciousness movement leader and anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, he defiantly challenged the legitimacy of the Israeli legal system while maintaining a calm demeanor.
Building on the sentiments that Pollak expressed, the January 1 demonstrations bypassed the Israeli public in favour of trying to bring international pressure on Israel for its violation of Palestinian rights.
Activists chanted 'fight back against apartheid' in English as they clashed with police in front of the international media in Tel Aviv. The English chants were escalated later in the evening when activists attempted to directly confront the American ambassador.
"We are tying the connections between US aid and support for Israel in general and the suppression of Palestinian popular struggle," said Matan Cohen just after being released from jail in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Awareness and divestment
Originally an Israeli activist with the Anarchists Against the Wall, Cohen is now primarily active with the movement to divest from Israel on American college campus' while completing his undergraduate degree in the US. He was one of the first activists jailed for blocking the road in front of the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, being shoved into a police van and beaten.
"We seek to connect the continuing resistance on the ground across the occupied territories and Israel to the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement," he added.
On the back of rabbinical calls to bar Jews from renting property to Palestinians, rallies throughout Israel demanding the full segregation of Arabs and the expulsion of non-Jewish migrants, and the government's push forward of uncompromising settlement expansion, Israel is now solidifying the image of what it means to be a Jewish state.
As a result, these few activists have found themselves looking in on a country where Palestinian existence is being erased from daily life, hidden behind a myriad of walls and checkpoints or evicted from homes in mixed neighbourhoods. Meanwhile the activists are faced with a government which capitalises, exploits and encourages a brand of isolationist Jewish exclusivity that both demands the world's unquestioning support and shuns any frank discussion about the reality in the country.
Seeking to use the privileged access their voice carries in North America and Europe to add power to the voice of the Palestinians they struggle alongside, these Israeli leftists are now side-stepping engagement with a society that is unwilling to listen.
Faced with the reality that they are talking to a government that uses blunt repression to avoid its responsibilities, Israel's Palestinian solidarity activists are now abandoning the failed attempts to be marginally heard in Israel's national discussion and choosing to push for global direct action.
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Maria 5 jan 2011
B'Tselem worker beaten by Israeli soldier
(3:43) Soldier assaults B'Tselem worker on latter's land
Two Palestinian family members were beaten and arrested by an Israeli soldier in their own olive grove last November, following an unlawful detainment of their two teenage relatives.
Filming for B'Tselem near Susiya in the southern Hebron Hills, 'Aliaa a-Nawaj'ah, 12, and her 14-year old brother Hamzah were leading their sheep on their own land when, according to 'Aliaa, around 7:30 AM, two soldiers arrived via an army jeep. The soldiers detained the siblings with plastic handcuffs before releasing them.
Responding to the soldiers, family members of the siblings came to the farm and, according to B'Tselem:
"Among them were Nasser a-Nawaj'ah, a B'Tselem field researcher, and Ahmad a-Nawaj'ah, who volunteers in B'Tselem's camera distribution project. The two soldiers saw Nasser filming the events, went over to him and pushed him, telling him that he was forbidden to be there. As noted, the land belongs to the Nawaj'ah family. The soldiers did not show any order closing the area. Nasser clarified that the army allows the family to be in their own land and continued filming."
Israel clamps down on WB protesters
Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against the construction of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank.
Israel's military has begun setting up gates near several villages in the occupied West Bank, buttressing them with barbed wire in an effort to further clamp down on anti-Tel Aviv protests.
The forces started leveling land and unloaded cement blocks on roads leading to the villages close to the central city of Ramallah on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.
The move targets protests against the massive separation wall, which Israel began building through the territory in 2002 to keep Palestinians out.
The forces also confronted outraged locals with tear gas canisters and stun grenades.
"Such gates will increase the separation between the Palestinian villages and cities and they target the protests that gather more support," said Salah al-Khawaja, an organizer of the protests.
A 36-year-old Palestinian woman died Friday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces that confronted an anti-wall protest in the western village of Bil'in.
The military troops also killed a 24-year-old Palestinian male at a checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, AFP reported. The Israeli forces claimed the victim attacked them, but Palestinian witnesses denied the assertion.
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Maria 6 jan 2010
Physicist: Naalin shooting tape doctored
(1:50) Israël Palestine / Israel soldier shoots arrested Palestinian on film / Images d'un soldat israélien tirant sur un Palestinien / Un soldat israélien filmé en train de tirer sur un Palestinien
Expert says geometric, ballistic analysis of tape showing soldier firing rubber bullet at bound Palestinian during anti-fence rally determined it is not authentic. Police: I wasn't edited.
A top physicist told the court hearing in the case of a commander found guilty of threatening a bound and blindfolded Palestinian during a rally in Naalin that the tape of the incident had been "doctored".
Nahum Shahaf, who also investigated the death of the Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura, was summoned as a witness for the defense in the case of Lt.-Col. Omri Burberg.
During the incident, one of Burberg's soldiers, Staff-Sergeant (res.) Leonardo Corea, fired a rubber bullet at the Palestinian's feet.
Shahaf said he had conducted a geometric and ballistic analysis of the tape and found that it had been edited.
"The editor cut out the cloud of dust caused by the discharge, which would have proved that the bullet hit the ground behind the detainee and not his toe, as well as the 20 cm gap between the rifle shaft and the bound Palestinian's foot," he said.
According to Shahaf, the footage was shot with a number of cameras positioned in different homes. "The cloud of dust which is supposed to appear as a result of a bullet hitting the ground did not appear, proving that the film had been doctored," the physicist told the court.
However, Superintendent Alan Tchaikovsky, a police forensics expert, said the tape was authentic. "No signs of editing or any other intervention were found," he said in an opinion submitted to the court.
About six months ago a military court convicted Burberg, the former commander of the Armored Corps' 71st Battalion, was convicted for attempted threats, while Corea was found guilty of illegal use of a weapon. Both were convicted for inappropriate behavior.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010082,00.html
Cable: IDF officials corrupt
US businessmen accuse officials at Karni crossing of taking bribes to allow goods into Gaza.
A cable leaked by WikiLeaks claims Israeli officials at the Karni crossing into Gaza took bribes from US companies trying to transfer goods into the Strip.
The 2006 cable, which says "US businesses allege that corruption by Israeli officials at Karni crossing is impeding their access to the Gaza market", was leaked exclusively by Norway's Aftenposten.
The cable was compiled from sources in both the US embassy in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem consulate general. It says that American goods worth $1.9 million waited at the Karni crossing for over three months before being permitted into Gaza.
The goods had been produced by companies such as Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Phillip Morris, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola.
The businessmen cited in the cable said they were forced to pay commission 75 times larger than normally paid at the crossing. One businessman accused both the crossing's management and middlemen companies handling logistics of corruption.
"These businessmen have criticized the fact that calls to the phone reservation system for receiving a date and time to cross are never answered and that their discussions with (government) officials have resulted in only temporary (one or two day) improvements," the cable says.
Coca-Cola's distributor identified one "high-level official at the terminal" who headed the bribery ring. "Directly under him are an Arab-Israeli, another Israeli civilian, and two IDF officers," the cable says.
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Maria 7 jan 2011
13 IOF bullets penetrated the head and heart of an elderly Palestinian man
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Haj Omar al-Qawsmi, 65 years, was asleep in his bed at 4:15 Friday morning when IOF troops quietly sneaked into his flat and went straight to his bedroom and riddled his head and upper body with 13 bullets leaving his brain splattered on the floor mistaking him for Wael al-Bitar.
His wife was praying when she heard the shooting and she cried aloud, the occupation soldiers immediately closed here mouth and dragged her to another room, when they ascertained her identity and that of her husband they went to Wael al-Bitar's flat searched the flat and arrested him. The IOF soldiers also questioned Wael's wife before leaving according to the family.
Meanwhile the family of Mohannad Neiroukh, another captive in Abbas's jails who was released after 40 days of hunger strike, said that the IOF troops encircled their home and raided it amid firing of flares and stun grenades and took Neiroukh, who is unconscious, to an awaiting ambulance.
The family of Majd Obaid said that IOF troops encircled their home, broke windows and doors and took Majd, who is not able to walk after going through a 40-day strike in Abbas's jails, to an awaiting ambulance.
The same was relayed by the families of Ahmad Oweiwi and Wisam al-Qawasmi about the kidnapping of their sons who were only released on Thursday evening from Abbas's jails by IOF troops.
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PM: We'll double number of haredim in IDF
Netanyahu decides to adopt chief of staff's recommendation; government to vote Sunday on plan to advance military and civilian service in ultra-Orthodox sector.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi's stand and will aim to double the number of haredim serving in the army within five years.
Netanyahu's office said Friday afternoon that the prime minister would ask the government to vote on a plan to advance military and civilian service in the ultra-Orthodox sector as early as Sunday.
The decision was made Friday morning at the end of a meeting between Netanyahu, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Major-General Avi Zamir, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate. According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office, Netanyahu decided to adopts the recommendations the army chief submitted to him during their meeting Wednesday.
The statement added that the decision would make it possible to double the number of recruits from the haredi sector in the next five years. The PM's Office expects the number of recruits in 2015 to total 4,800 2,400 in the army and 2,400 in national service. According to the plan, the IDF will also have additional combat systems take in haredi soldiers.
In order to meet the goal, the government will allot NIS 130 million ($37 million) a year for new and unique recruitment systems for the haredi sector, as well as NIS 70 million ($20 million) a year for developing new systems in the civilian service.
A haredi man without children will be allowed to join regular civilian service as an alternative for military service from the age of 26.
The PM's Office, the Finance Ministry, the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the Science Ministry will come up with a plan to help haredim serving in the army and in civilian service integrate into the labor market upon the completion of their military service.
The prime minister noted that this was an important decision which would increase the enlistment of young haredi men to the army and national service, encourage them to integrate into the labor market and help divide the burden among the Israeli society.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010387,00.html
Israeli occupation kidnaps five Palestinians hours after being released from PA
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- IOF troops kidnapped, Friday at dawn, five Palestinian men from the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, only hours after being released from PA jails after spending 40 days on hunger strike reflecting a high degree of security coordination between Abbas's militia and the IOF.
The wife of Wael al-Bitar told PIC that a large number of IOF troops raided their neighbourhood and entered her uncle's flat and killed while he was asleep thinking that he was her husband.
It seems they went by mistake to my uncle's flat, they killed him and assaulted his family then forced them on the street, she said.
She considered what has happened an exchange of roles between the PA and the Israeli occupation and held Mahmoud Abbas personally responsible for what happened and added: let the whole world see what happened to us at the hands of Fatah's authority and the [Israeli] occupation in the West bank.
Local sources also informed the PIC correspondent that IOF troops raided at the same time all homes of the captives who were only released on Thursday evening from Abbas's jails.
The sources said that as well as Wael al-Bitar, the IOF kidnapped Mohannad Neiroukh (who was unconscious), Majd Obaid, Ahmad al-Oweiwi and Wael al-Qawasmi.
The IOF action created a state of rage in the city with the people and the families of the kidnapped men holding Abbas's authority full responsibile for what happened.
The PA had released six men after went on a hunger strike for 40 days to protest being kept in jail despite a court ruling over a year ago ordering their release.
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Maria 8 jan 2011
Israel Soldier Beats Up Civilian & Shooting in Direct Formation
(0:49) Israel Soldier Beats Up Civilian & Shooting in Direct Formation 2005 1 x viewed
Israeli police assault Palestinian workers
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli border guards physically assaulted Friday several Palestinian laborers in Tel Aviv for allegedly working under fraudulent work permits, the Union of Palestinian Workers said on Saturday. Evidence of the alleged forgery has yet to surface.
Police teaming with the border guards kicked off that day an arrest campaign targeting Palestinians working illegally under Israeli law in several sites in the 1948 occupied territory.
"During an inspection in work shops in northern Tel Aviv yesterday, the force stumbled upon workers carrying out normal duties. They then proceeded to detain and search them," the laborers union said in its statement.
The soldiers separated the workers after they presented work permits and questioned them alleging that the permits were counterfeited, the union quoted one worker Yousef Hosni Jamal, 46, as saying.
The force then took them in a patrol of a forested area where they were beaten, coerced to leave the city, and threatened to be thrown into prison.
The Union condemned the act, which it said proves Israel's "war against Palestinian workers and their legal right to live and work."
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Confrontations between Silwan residents and Israeli forces
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Violent confrontations were reported in Batn Al-Hawa suburb in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem on Friday after an Israeli policeman harassed a Palestinian woman.
Locals said that Israeli forces encircled the entire town and fired tear gas and live bullets indiscriminately at Palestinian homes, as inhabitants said they could not evacuate victims of the onslaught due to the intensified presence of the soldiers who blocked medics from reaching the casualties.
The sources noted that the Israeli forces arrested Zuhair Rajabi, after surrounding his house, along with his brothers in addition to other inhabitants.
The Israeli army sent choppers after failure to contain the inhabitant's fury as the confrontations expanded to other areas in the town.
Senior police officers, including the commander of the Jerusalem police, arrived to the scene to supervise the storming of Batn Al-Hawa as policemen used dogs to terrorize the inhabitants while preventing medical and media crews from accessing the town.
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9 jan 2011
IOF troops reinforce security measures, kidnap boy in Al-Khalil
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian boy in the Old City of Al-Khalil at a late hour on Saturday night, local sources said.
They said that the IOF soldiers took away Fakhri Salayma, 17, without giving reason for his detention.
The sources noted that the IOF troops had tightened their security measures in all West Bank cities and districts in anticipation of resistance retaliation to crimes against the Palestinians.
The troops intensified military patrols at entrances to cities and installed roadblocks in different areas.
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12 jan 2011
Israeli army arrests teenager near Hebron
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The Israeli army arrested a 16-year-old near the West Bank city of Hebron early Wednesday, locals said.
Basem Mohammad Ahmad Al-Batat was detained in the raid, residents said, after his home was ransacked and searched.
Israel's military said its forces detained three Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank.
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Maria 13 jan 2011
IOA indicts two Silwan children for throwing stones
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli prosecution presented an indictment list against two Palestinian children from Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday night.
The indictment included the charge of throwing stones at Israeli police.
The Magistrate court west of occupied Jerusalem decided to impose house arrest on both children until the case concludes.
The Wadi Halawa media center said in a press release on Thursday that both children Mahmoud Al-Banna and Omar Siyam were held under house arrest for more than a year.
It added that the minors threw stones in reaction to a Jewish settler's shooting at Palestinians, noting that the settler was immediately released.
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IOF troops round up 11 Palestinians in past 24 hours including 2 minors
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up eight Palestinians in various West Bank areas at dawn Thursday and three others in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday including two boys.
Radio Israel reported that the eight citizens were wanted for questioning.
Local sources said that the IOF troops stormed the cities of Ramallah and Al-Khalil and villages in Bethlehem, Tulkarem, and Jericho where the civilians were detained.
On Wednesday, Israeli occupation police arrested three Palestinians in Silwan town, south of the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said that the policemen took away two boys from their homes, 14 and 16 years old respectively, while the third, a 19-year-old, was detained while walking in a street in Silwan.
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Maria 14 jan 2011
Nablus: Soldiers Ask Women to Remove Head Cover, Residents Outraged
Nablus PNN Residents of Barta al-Sharqia village, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, expressed outrage when soldiers tried to force local women to remove their head coverings at a military checkpoint.
The incident took place on Thursday evening when a group of local women were going back to their village after work. Soldiers at the checkpoint separating the village from Nablus asked them to remove their head coverings before the women could pass through.
The group of women refused and called their families in the village. Representatives from the village arrived at the checkpoint and argued with the soldiers, who let the women go without removing their head covers. For religious reasons Muslim women with head coverings do not remove it in front of men outside their family.
Barta al-Sharqia is on the Israeli side of the wall that surrounds the West Bank, but within the Palestinian side of the 1949 Green Line. Villagers have to pass through a military checkpoint every time they leave or enter their village.
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