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Palestine: IOF soldiers raid central Gaza, arrests & 100 olives trees uprooted in Salfit

IOF soldiers raid central Gaza amidst intensive shooting

GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced a few hundred meters to the east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Wednesday amidst intensive shooting at residential quarters.

Local sources said that the soldiers in three army tanks and a number of armored vehicles escorted four bulldozers into the area as reconnaissance planes flew overhead.

They said that the bulldozers destroyed land in the area as the soldiers were firing at nearby neighborhoods to scare off citizens.

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IOF soldiers detain three Palestinians in Al-Khalil, steal money in Nablus

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the village of Beit Ummar in Al-Khalil at dawn Wednesday and detained three Palestinian youths including two teenagers, local sources said.

They added that the soldiers thoroughly searched the houses of the three citizens before taking them away.

Meanwhile, IOF troops broke into a car rental company in Nablus city and stole a big amount of cash money in addition to computers, locals said.

They said that the soldiers blasted their way into Fattuh car rental company and stole 20000 dollars from its safe, business papers, and all computers in the facility.

Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers stormed a nearby building and searched a number of apartments in it.

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Israeli forces uproot 100 olives trees in Salfit

SALFIT, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) destroyed 100 olive trees in the Salfit village of Masha to make way for building a section of the separation wall, local sources said on Wednesday.

Farmer Mohammed Amer appealed for an end to the destruction of his olive trees, charging that the IOF soldiers were destroying the trees to expand the nearby Jewish settlement of Ornet.

He told the media that he was stunned when he arrived at the site to witness IOF bulldozers uprooting his trees, adding that most probably the act started since yesterday.

He said that the IOF soldiers’ destruction streak covered hundreds of dunums of cultivated land owned by farmers in Masha and Azzun Atma.

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