Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August, 15, 2017.
Troops demolish homes in Jerusalem and injures civilians during West Bank clashes. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Israeli Soldiers demolished, Tuesday, a commercial building, and a home, owned by two Palestinians, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Local sources said that dozens of soldiers invaded the Sal’a neighborhood, between Jabal al-Mokabber and Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and demolished a commercial structure. The soldiers also invaded the al-Bustan neighborhood, in Silwan town, and demolished a home.
Earlier on Tuesday, the soldiers demolished a two-story building, used for residence and commercial purposes, in the al-‘Isawiyya, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Elsewhere, several Palestinians suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Umm Safa village, northwest of Ramallah, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, during clashes that took place following the invasion.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several homes in occupied East Jerusalem, and Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, violently searched them and abducted six Palestinians in Hebron and one in Jerusalem. The army also broke into shops and warehouses in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday , August, 15, 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 Eman Abed rabbo Bannoura.
