Soldiers Invade Several Towns Near Hebron

Saturday March 24, 2012 00:22 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

Israeli army invaded on Thursday at night several towns near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and also invaded several neighborhoods in the city. Clashes were reported.

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Eyewitnesses reported that several army vehicles invaded a number of suburbs in Hebron, and installed roadblocks at the entrances of Ithna and Beit Kahil towns, held dozens of residents and detained several youths for hours before releasing them.

On Wednesday evening, soldiers invaded Doura town, near Hebron, and clashes with several youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them; no injuries were reported.

Late on Wednesday evening, a number of Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails at an Israeli monitoring tower near al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.

Israeli media sources reported that three Molotov cocktails were hurled at the jeeps, no damages or injuries were reported.

Two more cocktails were hurled at settler vehicles driving at the main road between Gush Etzion settlement and the al-Arroub refugee camp leading to damages but no injuries, Israeli sources reported.

Soldiers invaded the camp and conducted military searches of homes, no arrests were reported.

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