Important News
- Cabinet condemns Israel’s resumption of land settlement process in Area “C”; reaffirms support for displaced families in Tulkarm
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- Israeli forces attack Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades in Hebron, causing suffocation cases and fire to break out
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- Elderly sustains injury in colonists’ attack in southern West Bank
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Israeli Soldiers Storm School in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, May 5, 2004, (WAFA) - Israeli occupation soldiers stormed a school in the city of Bethlehem creating a state of panic among schoolboys, local sources said.... Witnesses said that tens of Israeli soldiers stormed the "Al-Zeer Secondary School", southeast of Bethlehem, and launched a class -to-class search campaign.... Abdallah Shakarneh, Director of Education in Bethlehem, said that Israeli soldiers searched the rooms and ripped tens of educational aids. They also provoked and terrified schoolboys.... "In the last couple of days Israeli soldiers escalated their aggression against the school; sometime, they shot fire and gas canisters," Shakarneh said, "they also assaulted them while entering or leaving the school"....