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6 Civilians Wounded, 4 Arrested in WB


WEST BANK, March 30, 2004, (WAFA) – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded early Tuesday two civilians in the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Nablus.... In Bethlehem, a school boy was wantonly wounded Tuesday of tear-gas canisters fired by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the vicinity of Taqooa Secondary school.... The school headmaster Salem Abu Mfrih confirmed that Israeli soldiers indiscriminately fired live gunshots and tear-gas canisters at school boys on their way to school, a child was wounded causing a thrill of fear among other children.... In Nablus, IOF wounded a civilian as they opened heavy gunfire at the civilians who were passing the Israeli checkpoint of Tall, witnesses and medical sources said.... Medics said that Derrar Ramadan, 22, was shot with live bullets in the right knee, adding that Israeli soldiers, stationed at the checkpoint, opened intensive fire at the civilians, critically wounding a university student.... In another incident, IOF arrested early Tuesday four Palestinian civilians in Nablus City, witnesses said.... They told WAFA that Israeli soldiers swept into the city, stormed several houses and commercial stores in Rafidia neighbourhood, and conducted a search campaign shortly before arresting four civilians.... Security sources confirmed that the twins Wael and Ghassan Tablah , 21, and Mhab Swidan, 17, a high school boy, were arrested by the IOF and led into an unknown place. A fourth citizen has yet to be identified.... Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers stormed the city refugee camp of Ascar, broke into a civilian building and arrested Amjad abu Maghly.... In Jenin, IOF also arrested Tuesday a woman, witnesses said.... They confirmed that Israeli soldiers broke into the city, stormed the house of Khames Jaber in the city's Old Town and arrested his daughter Zahra, 17.... In Tubas, Israeli soldiers stormed a number of civilian houses amid intensive shooting, spreading a state of horror and panic among women and children.... Earlier on Monday, IOF arrested four civilians after storming the houses in different neighborhoods of Hebron City.... Sources in the Palestinian prisoner's Society said that Israeli soldiers arrested the brothers Basman, 32, Attaf, 24, Majed Abu Snainah, 25, and an unidentified citizen, bringing the number of those arrested in the city to ninety during the current month....

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