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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, April, 05, 2017.

Israeli troops invade West Bank communities injuring one civilian and abducting a dozen others. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with local youths, before shooting and seriously injuring a young man, and abducted eight other Palestinians during violent searches of homes, in Bethlehem district, including three in Deheishe.

The soldiers fired many live rounds, wounding a young man, identified as Akram Omran al-Atrash, 23, with three live rounds in his back and shoulder, seriously wounding him, before local medics moved him to Beit Jala governmental hospital.

Moreover The PPS further reported that the soldiers also invaded Nahhalin town, southwest of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted five Palestinians.

Also on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded at dawn, Fahma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, violently searched homes and abducted three Palestinians, including a local lawyer whose car was also illegally confiscated. The soldiers also invaded Tulkarem refugee camp, and abducted one Palestinian.

In Gaza, On Wednesday, two armored bulldozer and three tanks stationed at a military base across the border fence, invaded Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the coastal region, while Israeli planes also sprayed lands with toxins.

The lands are planted with wheat, barley, Okra, melons, and several other types of plants that provided livelihood to many families.

And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Wednesday, April, 05, 2017, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.