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Israel Attacks Mosques, Raids Hall,
Seizes School Buses To Sabotages
Palestinian Truce Efforts |
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July 9, 2008
Israeli occupation troops raided city hall in the occupied West
Bank town of Nablus on Wednesday, confiscating five computers,
as part of an ongoing crackdown on Hamas' civil and social
infrastructure in the West Bank.
Nablus' deputy mayor Hafez Shaheen said occupation troops also
raided six mosques Wednesday and seized five buses belonging to
schools affiliated with the Islamic organization that rules
Gaza.
Nablus' mayor, Adli Yaish, is a Hamas politician who has been
detained by Israel. On Monday, the Israeli occupation army shut
down a multiple storey shopping center in Nablus whose board of
directors is chaired by Yaish.
Businesses planned a general strike Wednesday to protest the
crackdown. The occupation army had no immediate comment. But
this week, troops have raided and shut down various Nablus
facilities it says are linked to Hamas.
On Tuesday, the Israeli army also shut down five other Hamas
institutions in the northern West Bank city, including a support
group for resistance fighters detained in Israel, an Islamic
trade union organization, a medical society and two aid
organizations in the Nablus refugee camps of Askar and Balata.
Computers, furniture and documents were seized also in the
pre-dawn raid on Al-I'itiman Investment Co in the city of
Nablus's only mall, with soldiers posting a closure notice.
After August 15, anyone running a store in the five-storey mall
which has dozens of shops "could face five years in jail," the
order reads.
Nablus mayor Jamal Muheissen slammed the closure, saying the
"mall belongs to the people and not to Hamas, and it operates in
accordance with Palestinian Authority regulations." Many of the
shopkeepers staged a march in Nablus to protest the action.
Israel, like the European Union and the United States,
blacklists Hamas as a “terrorist organization” despite its
landslide victory in 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections.
Earlier this year the army shut down several warehouses and
offices of the Islamic Charity Movement and the Islamic Youth
Association in the southern West Bank town of Hebron, saying
they were used to funnel funds to Hamas's military wing.
Israel West Bank Raids Sabotage Palestinian
Security Efforts
Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warned that
Israeli military operations in the West Bank were hampering his
administration's effort to improve security in the territory.
"The operations undermine grossly our efforts aimed at
rebuilding our capacity and reestablishing law and order,"
Fayyad told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah
with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
A strong Palestinian security presence in the West Bank is an
integral part of peace talks between Israel and Fayyad's West
Bank government, which resumed last year |
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Source:
esinislam.com
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