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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday June 11th, 2013.
Israeli settlers injure a Palestinian civilian, and soldiers invade West Bank communities and kidnap civilians. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
One Palestinian man was shot and injured by a live round fired by a guard of the Oranit illegal Israeli settlement, built on lands that belong to residents of Azzoun Al-‘Atma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Qalqi lia.
Eyewitnesses have reported that the guard fired several rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian day laborers trying to cross into the Israel.
One of the live rounds hit Abdullah Imad Al-Barry, 20, in his leg causing moderate injuries; he was moved Dr. Darwish Nazzal hospital in Qalqilia.
Meanwhile Israeli soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped nine Palestinians in Nablus and one in Hebron.
Several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded the village of Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped nine Palestinians.
Local sources have reported that the soldiers broke into dozens of homes, and searched them, causing property damage, before kidnapping the nine residents.
One child, identified as Waseem Ehrebaat, 15, was detained for several hours after the soldiers invaded Beit Ar-Roosh village, near Hebron.
Soldiers also installed roadblocks leading to a number of villages and towns in the occupied West Bank, and inspected ID cards of dozens of residents.
Moreover Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian child and his father, from the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) stated that the army could not find a detention facility willing to hold the child”, and decided to release him.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday June 11th news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our website at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by Hussam Qassis and me, Ghassan Bannoura.
