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by IMEMC News
May 4, 2024

On Saturday, Israeli forces abducted at least eight Palestinians, and assaulted several citizens, including a child, in various regions of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces abducted, at dawn Saturday, five Palestinians in the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to the Mayor of Sebastia, Muhammad Azem, the occupation army invaded the town in the early dawn hours, stormed several homes, assaulted young men, and abducted Mustafa Youssef Sukkar, Saif Muhammad Abu Saif, Ismail Jihad Hawari, Yasser Ahmed Kayed, and Amr Nizar Kayed

Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces confiscated a tractor, on Saturday morning, and abducted its owner in the town of Douma, southeast of Nablus.

While he was plowing his land, soldiers chased Musab Abdel Samie Dawabsha, and proceeded to abduct him and seized his tractor.

In the evening, Israeli forces abducted the guard of the Greek Consul in Jerusalem, while he was in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Media sources said that soldiers attacked and abducted the guard of the Greek Consul during the celebration of Holy Saturday.

Furthermore, on Saturday evening, the army stormed the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, sparking protests.

Media sources said that Israeli forces assaulted a Palestinian child, and fired live rounds and tear gas canisters at those who resisted the incursion.

In the northeastern part of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian resident of the Ein al-Sultan camp near Jericho, while he was passing through a military roadblock, north of the city.

According to Eid Barahma, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society in Jericho, occupation forces abducted Jibril Musa Salem Abu Kharbish at a flying military roadblock near the village of Fasayil, north of Jericho.

Illegal Israeli colonizers, on Saturday, attacked three shepherds near Hebron in the southern West Bank, before soldiers abducted them, and stormed homes in the northern Jordan Valley.
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Colonizers Attack Palestinians, Army Abducts Three, Near Hebron

by IMEMC News
May 4, 2024

Illegal Israeli colonizers, on Saturday, attacked three shepherds near Hebron in the southern West Bank, before soldiers abducted them, and stormed homes in the northern Jordan Valley.

Israeli colonizers attacked, on Saturday morning, three Palestinian shepherds in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, before occupation forces abducted the victims.

According to Rateb Jabour, the Coordinator of the National and Popular Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements, Israeli soldiers abducted three shepherds in the “Shoumra” area in the Yatta desert.

Jabour added that the colonizers chased and assaulted the three men, identified as Abdullah Hassan Basita, Ali Abdullah Taimat, and Muhammad Ali Taimat, before soldiers abducted them.

Later it was reported that illegal Israeli colonizers damaged water pumps used for agricultural purposes belonging to Palestinians, in the village of Khirbet al-Deirin the northern Jordan Valley.

According to Aref Daraghma, a local human rights defender in the Northern Plains, said that colonists caused damage to the water pumps belonging to the farmer, Mohammad Hosni Sawafta.

In the afternoon, several Israeli colonizers stormed at least four Palestinian-owned home in the Arab Al-Mleihat community, northwest of the city of Jericho in the northern Jordan Valley.

According to Hassan Mleihat, the general supervisor of the “Al-Baidar” organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, said that many colonists invaded the community, while storming and searching at least four homes belonging to the Mleihat family.

Moreover, a group of colonizers attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian citizens in various of the northern Jordan Valley.

According to Aref Daraghma, a human rights defender in Northern Plains, Israeli settlers attacked the vehicle of the citizen, Ahmad Hassan Daraghma, while he was in the “Umm Al-Qaba” Plain.

Settlers attacked the Arab Al-Mleihat community for the second time on Saturday evening, hurling rocks at the home of the citizen, Jamal Suleiman Mleihat, according to Hassan Mleihat.

In related news, the occupation authorities ordered, on Friday, the Qaraeen family to demolish three commercial shops in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.

The shop owner, Yassin Qaraeen, stated that the Israeli occupation municipality forced him to demolish his three shops under the pretext of not having a license.

Qaraeen added that the his family began demolishing the three shops, which have been present in the area for 30 years, in order to avoid paying a fine to the municipality.

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