Important News
- Prisoners' organizations: Escalating and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in April
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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- Israeli forces continue to demolish homes in Nour Shams camp amid ongoing offensive
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- Armed colonists graze their sheep near Palestinian residents' homes south of Hebron
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- UN organizations: 2.1 million Gazans face starvation, as Israeli genocide continues
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- Tulkarm: 106 days since Israel's aggression began on the city and refugee camps
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IOF Kills a Palestinian, Arrests 6
HEBRON, March 2, 2004, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed today a citizen and destroyed his house in the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, witnesses and Palestinian official sources said....
"Around a.m. 03.00, Israeli forces broke into the house of Mohammed Abu Rajab, killed him and destroyed his house," eyewitness told WAFA correspondent....
'Ayda Hospital sources, in Hebron, said Mohammed Mahmood Abu Rajab, 25, was instantly killed after being shot with several live bullets in different parts of his body....
Palestinian security sources said Abu Rajab was killed when Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers swept, under intensive gunfire, into the town of Yatta and stationed at the Wadi Zaytoon neighbourhood....
Israeli troops broke into tens of houses terrifying residents. They launched a house-to-house inspection campaign, witnesses said....
Meanwhile, IOF arrested six Palestinian civilians in separate attacks in the West Bank....
In Balata refugee camp, IOF stormed tens of houses and arrested four civilians and led them to undisclosed place, Palestinian security sources said....
Two other civilians were also arrested by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near al-Fari’’a camp, north of the West Bank, security sources added....
"Israeli soldiers stopped and arrested Taleb and Hazem Salahat,†witnesses told WAFA....
In the meantime, IOF imposed a tight curfew on the village of Bzaria, northwest of Nablus, Palestinian security sources said....
Witnesses said, Israeli troops thrust into the village of Bzaria and closed the schools, forcing schoolboys to leave....
"They stormed the schools and forced us under fire threat to evacuate them, and imposed curfew," a teacher from Bzaria told WAFA in a phone call....
In the town of Kofr Laqif of Qalqilya, Israeli bulldozers razed vast areas of Palestinian arable land....
Israeli bulldozers flattened more than 120 Donums in an attempt to be annexed to the Israeli colonies, Kofr Laqif municipality sources said....
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