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Israeli Forces Arrest Children, Raid Towns in West Bank

WEST BANK, April 25, 2011 (WAFA)- Israeli soldiers Monday raided  Jayous, a town east of Qalqilya and arrested two children, 15 and 16, said local sources.

According to witnesses, military vehicles roamed the streets and neighborhoods of the town, spreading fear and panic amongst the residents.

In Tulkarem north of the West Bank, witnesses told WAFA that intelligence units that accompanied the forces handed several Palestinians summons for interrogation.

They also set up a checkpoint on the road leading to Khirbet Jabara, a village south of Tulkarem, stopped vehicles and checked the identities of passengers and pedestrians, witnesses added.

In Hebron, Israeli forces opened fire at several residential areas, and threw tear gas and sound bombs, according to security sources.

Settlers from Kfar Etzion settelemet, north of Hebron, flooded farmlands with wastewater flowing from the settlement, contaminating tens of agricultural lands belonging  to Palestinian farmers of Beit Ummar village, said an official spokesman of Palestine Solidarity Project (PSP).

It should be noted that Etzion settlers committed the same act one year ago, and destroyed 70 dunoms of agricultural lands, a method commonly used to force Palestinians off their lands for illegal settlement construction.

M.N./F.R.   

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