Israeli soldiers raided al-Maajen district and arrested Fayrouz Naalwa from her home
Israeli forces on Monday detained the sister of a suspected Palestinian shooter, who shot dead two Israelis in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to local residents.
Israeli soldiers raided al-Maajen district in Nablus and arrested Fayrouz Naalwa, a lecturer, from her home, the residents said.
The raid came one day after two Israelis were killed and another was injured in a shooting attack in an industrial area near the settlement of Barkan in the central West Bank.
The shooter had fled the scene unscathed with Israeli media saying the attacker was a former Palestinian worker from the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
At least three Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli army gunfire -- and another 126 injured -- amid ongoing demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone.In a statement, Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said that one of the three martyrs was a minor.According to al-Qidra, “dozens” of Palestinian protesters were affected by teargas while 126 others, including 10 women and 30 children, sustained gunshot injuries.Israel takes aim at UNRWA’s presence in E. Jerusalem: MediaIsrael to send reinforcements to Gaza buffer zoneSeven of the injured persons were in serious condition, he added.Demonstrators demand the “right of return” to their homes and villages in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.They also demand an end to Israel’s 11-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.According to the Health Ministry, more than 190 Palestinians have been martyred -- and 20,000 others injured -- since the rallies first began on March 30.Video: Three Palestinians martyred along Gaza-Israel buffer zone
Three Palestinians martyred along Gaza-Israel buffer zone
Clashes broke out Friday between stone-throwing Palestinian youths and Israeli troops in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Violent confrontations erupted in the town of Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus, and in the towns of Bilein, Nilein and Ras Karkar west of Ramallah, during which Israeli troops used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse Palestinian demonstrators.Demonstrators threw stones at army troops and blocked roads with flaming tires.Murad Ashtawi, a popular resistance activist in Kafr Qaddum, told Anadolu Agency that Israeli troops had raided the town in a bid to preempt a planned anti-settlement demonstration.Every Friday, Palestinians across the West Bank stage rallies to protest Israel’s longstanding policy of building Jewish settlements on confiscated Palestinian land.According to Israeli and Palestinian estimates, roughly 650,000 Jewish settlers currently live in settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.Israel takes aim at UNRWA’s presence in E. Jerusalem: Media
Israeli army, Palestine youth clash in occupied W. Bank
Meanwhile, Israeli forces rounded up 19 Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank.
The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the nature of these activities.
The Israeli army frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.
According to Palestinian figures, some 6,500 Palestinians continue to languish in Israeli detention facilities, including scores of women and hundreds of minors.
Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated high unemployment rates in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, which has been reeling under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.Protesters called on local authorities and the Ramallah-based Ministry of Labor to intervene to create jobs for jobless Palestinians in the seaside enclave."Today, poor families in Gaza are coming out to raise their voices in the face of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the international community," Talal Abu Zarifa, a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), which organized the rally, told Anadolu Agency.“We tell the PA that you have to correct your policy and put an end to the division that has turned the Gaza Strip into a disaster zone in conjunction with the [Israeli] blockade."Abu Zarifa went on to decry the “continued silence of the international community” towards the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.Last month, the World Bank warned that the Gaza economy was in “free fall”, calling on Israel and the international community to take immediate actions to avoid “immediate collapse” in the Palestinian territory.According to the bank, the unemployment is now over 50 percent – and over 70 percent among Gaza's youth.Israel has imposed a crippling siege on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian group Hamas seized control of the strip from rival Fatah group.In October, Hamas and Fatah -- Palestine’s two main political factions -- signed a landmark reconciliation agreement in Cairo aimed at ending their bitter division. However, the reconciliation agreement has failed to bear fruit due to ongoing differences between the two factions.Gazans bury three martyrs killed by IsraelIsraeli navy arrests two fishermen off Gaza coastThree Palestinians martyred along Gaza-Israel buffer zone
Palestinians protest high unemployment in Gaza
Hundreds of Palestinians on Saturday paid farewell to three people martyred by Israeli army fire during anti-occupation protests near border of the Gaza Strip a day earlier.Palestinians in eastern Gaza’s al-Shojaeya neighborhood took part in the funeral of 12-year-old Faris al-Sirsawi, who was killed by Israeli forces stationed near a security fence in eastern Gaza.Mourners also laid to rest the bodies of Mahmoud Abu Samaan, 24, and Hussein al-Raqib, 28, in central and southern Gaza.Video: Gaza bids farewell to 24-year-old martyrFriday’s deaths brought to 198 Palestinians martyred and thousands more injured by Israeli army fire near Gaza border in anti-occupation protests since March.Demonstrators demand the “right of return” to their homes and villages in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.They also demand an end to Israel’s 11-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.Israeli navy arrests two fishermen off Gaza coastThree Palestinians martyred along Gaza-Israel buffer zone
Gazans bury three martyrs killed by Israel