A Palestinian Dies of his Wound in Gaza as the Israeli Occupation Forces Raid Nablus

GAZA, Palestine, April11,2005 (IPC+WAFA)--

A Palestinian died of his wound that he sustained earlier late January as the Israeli occupation forces continued to violate the cease fire understanding , raiding the West bank city of Nablus and arresting several Palestinian citizens.

Medics in Gaza city announced that the citizens Nasser Al Sa'afeen,19, from al Nussairat refugee camp , at center of the Strip, succumbed to his critical wounds he sustained by a missile fired by the Israeli occupation troops manning an outpost in the periphery of the illegal Israeli settlement of Nitzarim, south of Gaza city, on 9th January.

A fresh incursion took place today morning in Nablus city of the west bank in which five citizens were arrested and four others wounded.

Local sources said that 20 military vehicles backed by a helicopter, surrounded several buildings and called on their residents to get out, in Baker and Ibn Al Rasheed streets in the northern mount.

The same sources added that the Israeli occupation troops arrested five citizens named Rami Al Khalili,, Ibraheim Al Khalili, Ferass Tambour, Mohammed Tambour,16, Noor Tambour,20, all were taken to undisclosed destination.

In the same course, the Israeli troops stormed in Tamoun town, southeast of Tubass city of the West Bank.

Witnesses said that today, dawn a column of Israeli military convoys entered the town from its western entrance and set up a military roadblock.

A similar incursion also took place in al Yamoun town, west of Jenin city in which they launched a house to house search and turn it upwards down. The local sources said that the Israeli occupation troops arrested the citizen Yousef Omar Abhra after storming his home.

WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli occupation troops incurred into Asakra village, east of Bethlehem and broke in several houses.

Witnesses said that seven Israeli military convoys stormed the village and cordoned off the two houses of the brothers Anwar and Mohammed Asakra, then afterward vandalized the house and evicted its dwellers, which is a common practice committed by Israeli occupation soldiers whenever they conduct house searches.