Palestine: Arrests, student detained because of project & protests attacked

IOF soldiers detain 11 Palestinians

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 11 Palestinians in various West Bank areas following a large scale search campaign at dawn Sunday.

Israeli military sources said that the detainees, whose identity was withheld along with their places of arrest, were wanted by the IOF for suspicion of involvement in attacks on Israeli targets.

Palestinian sources said that IOF soldiers stormed many buildings in the West Bank cities and villages, breaking into homes during the sleeping hours and forcing inhabitants out in the cold weather for search before taking away detainees.

They said that the soldiers destroyed doors of those homes and wreaked havoc inside them.

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Inhabitants of hamlet go on hunger strike to protest demolition of their homes

NABLUS, (PIC)– Inhabitants of Khirbat Al-Tawil hamlet south of Nablus city have gone on hunger strike for a single day on Saturday to protest Israeli occupation authority’s practices against them.

Quds Press quoted Hamza Dairiye, member of the popular committee to defend the hamlet land, as saying that the hunger strike, the first of its kind, was in protest against the IOA plan to raze all 17 houses of Khirbat Al-Tawil in addition to a mosque and an electricity network.

He said that the IOA decided to demolish the entire hamlet within a week at the pretext it was built on military land in “C” area in the West Bank, which is under full control of the IOA.

The activist said that Khirbat Al-Tawil and nearby areas are the most fertile lands overlooking the Jordan Valley with 30000 dunums cultivated with wheat, legumes, and vegetables while 10000 others dunums are left for cattle grazing.

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Tadamun: “Israel” detained student because of his graduate project

NABLUS, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained about one month ago a 20-year old university student from Tulkarem city because of his graduate research project.

Spokesman for the society Ahmed Al-Betawi said the IOF detained earlier this month student Ali Takatika, majoring in computer engineering, at the pretext his graduate research was posing a threat to Israel’s national security.

According to Betawi, the student young man chose a graduate project on the construction of a pilotless plane model and started to make online research on the subject before the IOF detained him.

Israeli interrogators told the student he could not go on with his graduate project for security reasons and should pledge to choose another one of no threat to Israel’s security in order to release him.

The Israeli occupation authority and its forces have imposed a ban on the access to many chemicals, fertilizers, and even lathes to be used in labs and workshops by the Palestinian universities and their students.

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IOA blocks travel of 40 Palestinians in one week

Ramallah, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) blocked the travel of 40 Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan over the past week, Palestinian sources said.

They said that the IOA told 40 Palestinians at the Karame crossing that they were banned from travel for alleged “security reasons”.

The IOA controls the crossing between the West Bank and Jordan and bars travel of Palestinian citizens at trivial security pretexts.

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Israeli soldiers attack peaceful marches in W. Bank villages

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinians were reportedly wounded on Friday afternoon during Israeli military attacks on peaceful marches organized weekly in different West Bank villages to protest the expansion of settlements and the segregation wall at the expense of Palestinian lands.

In Masarah village near Bethlehem city, Israeli soldiers attacked foreign activists and Palestinians after they marched towards the Palestinian lands behind the segregation wall. Two of the peaceful protestors sustained injuries after they were severely beaten by soldiers, a spokesman for Masarah popular committee reported.

In addition to the slogans chanted and banners carried against settlement activities, the protestors in Masarah dedicated their weekly march to condemn Israel’s detention of Palestinian lawmakers.

Al-Khalil city also saw a massive rally organized after the Friday prayers to peacefully protest Israel’s annexation of Palestinian lands in Tel Rumeida village.

The Israeli occupation forces also suppressed the weekly march that took place in Kafr Qaddum village.

Despite the soldiers’ attacks, and the rainy and cold weather conditions, the Kafr Qaddum villagers along with foreign activists kept marching and chanting slogans calling for escalating the popular resistance until the liberation of all Palestine.

In another march organized in Bil’in village near Ramallah city, the occupation forces also used tear gas grenades, rubber bullets, and waste water against the protestors causing many injuries among them.

One Palestinian photographer was deliberately shot in his two legs with rubber bullets and many Palestinian and foreign protestors suffocated and puked as a result of the large amount of tear gas and waster water used against Bil’in march.

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