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<h1 class="article-title"><small>Report; “Israel Welcomes New Year With
Home Demolition, Invasions And Arrests”</small></h1>
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alt="author"> Wednesday January 02, 2013 09:10</span><span
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src="cid:part2.04030006.08070804@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies</span></span> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/64807">http://www.imemc.org/article/64807</a><br>
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The Palestine Public Broadcasting Cooperation reported Tuesday that
Israel started the new year with a series of invasions, attacks and
destruction of Palestinian property, and with arrests targeting local
residents; injuries were also reported.
<p class="article"> The army invaded the Al-Esawiyya town, north of
occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a home that belongs to resident
Rafat Tareq Al-Eesawy, 40, under the pretext that his home was built
without a construction permit. <br>
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Rafat is the brother of detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, who went on hunger
strike more than 176 days, and suspended his strike last week for ten
days following medical advice due to very serious health complications.
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invaded Al-Esawiyya and demolished his 145-square/meter under
construction home. The army and the Jerusalem municipality never handed
him and warning, warrant or citation regarding his property. <br>
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“Israel regards the land we live on to be public property, and wants to
use the area to build national and biblical gardens”, he said,
“therefore, the city council does not grant the Palestinians any
construction permits, I’ve been living in my small house with the three
children and wife for 10 years, I cannot expand my house, I cannot
build another house for my children due to Israeli restrictions”.<br>
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The army also demolished, on Tuesday morning, three hothouses that
belong to two families in the village, also under the pretext of being
constructed without permits. <br>
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It is worth mentioning that since early dawn hours of the first day of
2013 the army conducted various invasions into different parts of the
occupied West Bank, broke into several homes and kidnapped a number of
residents. <br>
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The soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem , broke into and
searched several homes before kidnaping two residents identified as
Amer Mohammad Taqatqa, 20, and Mousa Na’im Taqatqa, 19.<br>
<br>
Soldiers further invaded Beit Ummar and Sa’ir towns, in the Hebron
district in the southern part of the West Bank, kidnapped four
residents and installed several roadblocks. <br>
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The Palestine New and Info Agency (WAFA) reported that the soldiers
kidnapped Nour Yousef Awad, 18, Mohannad Mirshid Awad, 15, and Yousef
Ibrahim Sabarna, 18, after breaking into and searching their homes in
Beit Ummar, and also kidnapped Adham Jaradaat, 27, in Sa’ir town. <br>
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The army further invaded several neighborhoods in Hebron, installed
roadblocks at the entrances on Sa’ir, Halhoul, Ithna, and the Al-Fawwar
refugee camp, stopped and searched dozens of vehicles and interrogated
dozens of residents while inspecting their ID cards. <br>
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In occupied Jerusalem, the army kidnapped Amer Ziad Zeidani, 17, Samah
Maher Sahran, 19, and Ibrahim Mouse Odah, 23, after invading Silwan
town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. <br>
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Majdi Al-Abbasy of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center told the WAFA
News Agency that the army kidnapped the three residents from their
homes in Ayyoub and Al-Bustan neighborhood, and moved them to an
interrogation center in the city. <br>
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In Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, the army
kidnapped three children from Zabbouba village, and held them at the
Salem military camp, and also invaded the nearby villages of Az-Zababda
and Msalya villages, south of the city. <br>
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Local sources told WAFA that the army detained Mohammad Jaradaat, 15,
Allam Maqalda, 16, and Ahmad Amarna, 16, after invading Zabbouba
village, interrogated the three children for several hours and handed
them to the Palestinian District Coordination Office. <br>
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In Tammoun village, near the central West Bank city of Tubas, five
Palestinians have been injured by military fire, one seriously, after
undercover forces of the Israeli army infiltrated into the village and
broke into a home before kidnaping one resident identified as Morad
Suleiman Bani-Odah.<br>
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Head of the Tammoun village council told WAFA regular units of the
Israeli army invaded the village and clashed with local residents; the
soldiers fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition wounding five
residents identified as Dia’ Bani-Odah, Jadallah Jaradaat, Mohammad
Bisharaat, Anas Bani-Odah, and Amin Bani-Odah’’ dozens of residents
were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation. </p>
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