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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 24th, 2015.
Israeli soldiers invade West Bank communities demolish Palestinian homes and kidnap a number of civilians. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by armored bulldozers, invaded Tuesday Ta’nak village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished a deep artesian well, in addition to uprooting ten Palestinian olive trees.
Local news sources said that ten military vehicles, and an armored bulldozer invaded the village before demolishing a 50-meter deep artesian well.
The well provides water for agricultural lands belonging to local farmers. In addition, soldiers demolished a wall, and uprooted more than ten olive trees without providing any explanation for their attack.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the al-Koum Palestinian village, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and handed orders for the destruction of two Palestinian homes, and a well.
The soldiers handed ‘Arafat Ahmad Rajoub, and his brother, Yasser, two orders to demolish their own homes in the village, and handed resident Mohammad Abdul-Hafith Rajoub an order to demolish his well.
Soldiers also invaded a number of neighborhoods in Hebron city, installed roadblocks on the main entrances of Sa’ir and Halhoul towns, and Hebron’s northern entrance, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and investigated the ID cards of the passengers while interrogating them.
In addition, a number of Israeli fanatics of the Ramat Yeshai illegal colony, built on Palestinian lands in the center of Hebron, invaded the Jabal ar-Rahma area in the city, and conducted provocative acts.
On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers kidnapped one Palestinian in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, another on a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and a third Palestinian in Ramallah.
According to local sources among those kidnapped on Tuesday was Mohammad Mohammad, 21 years of age, suffers a disability in one of his legs.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 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 George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
