Israeli army carries a wide-scale abduction campaign in several areas of West Bank

Thursday August 02, 2007 13:09 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News

The Israeli army abducted a number of Palestinians in different areas of the West Bank on Thursday morning.

The first abduction was carried out in Beitunia, west of Ramallah city in the central West Bank, where Israeli forces kidnapped one Palestinian.Palestinian security sources in the area reported that Israeli soldiers surrounded and searched the home of Yousef Kefaya before kidnapping and transferring him to an unknown destination.

The second abduction took place in the northern West bank, where one Palestinian was kidnapped from Nablus and seven were kidnapped from the nearby village of Burqa.

The kidnapped residents of Burqa were identified as: Nadeem Amer, Habeeb Ja'far, Samer Daghlas, Nojood Abu Amer, Tareq Sayef, Ameen Desoqi, and Tamer Daghlas. In a separate operation, a huge number of Israeli army vehicles also invaded Nablus and other parts of the nearby Balata refugee camp while shooting heavily on residents.

Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces spread out across different neighbourhoods, searching homes, confiscating properties and kidnapping one Palestinian identified as Omar Saber, taking him to an unknown destination.

In another abduction campaign, the Israeli army kidnapped two Palestinians from the town of Al Yamoon during an invasion of the nearby northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Security sources in the area reported that an Israeli army force invaded the town, ransacked homes and kidnapped Majdi Hamdiya, 25 and Mohammad Abu Sayfien, 27, taking them to an unknown destination.

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