ISRAELI OCCUPATION SOLDIERS KIDNAP PALESTINIAN WOMAN IN AL QUDS

         Al Quds, 9 Safar 1435/12 December 2013 (MINA) – The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday [December 10, 2013], a Palestinian woman identified as Nadia Lufty Abu Eid, 34 years old.

        The Center said that Nadia is the wife of Ayman Abu Eid, a former political prisoner from Biddu town, in occupied al Quds (Jerusalem). Ayman spent 15 years in Israeli prisons, Alqassam reported as quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).

        Head of the Ahrar Center, Fuad Al-Khoffash, stated that the soldiers installed a roadblock at the entrance of the town, and kidnapped Nadia as she was heading to a hospital in Jerusalem seeking medical attention for her child.

        Al-Khoffash said that the soldiers confiscated the car Nadia was driving, and took her to an interrogation facility in the city. Nadia is a mother of five children; the youngest is a one-year-old baby girl.

        Al-Khoffash voiced an appeal to human rights groups to intervene, and expose the ongoing Israeli violations on roadblocks, as well as in different parts of occupied Palestine.

          It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian Prisoners Society {PPS) has reported that Israel is currently holding captive more than 5000 Palestinians, including 200 minors, and 15 women.

          On 3 December, the Israeli occupation police also arrested five Palestinian children from Sur Baher town, south of occupied East Jerusalem, on suspicion of throwing stones at a settler’s vehicle causing an injury to a settler’s child.

          The Police said the incident took place a few days ago, and that the children “confessed” during interrogation to throwing stones, and recreated the scene in front of their interrogators.

          Similar to previous cases involving dozens of detained Palestinian children, no family members or lawyers were present during interrogation.

          Israeli sources said that the police would likely be arresting more children either directly involved in the incident, or involved in alleged similar attacks.

          In related news, soldiers kidnapped a cameraman working for the Maan News Agency at a military roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

          Earlier on Tuesday, dozens of soldiers invaded have invaded the southern West Bank city of Hebron, kidnapping four Palestinians.

         The army also installed a military roadblock at the entrance of the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, and several roadblocks close to the Halhoul town, north of the city.

          Furthermore, several Israeli settlers attacked several homes in Khirbit Um Al-Kheir village, east of Yatta town south of Hebron.

         Another group of settlers, from the illegal Etnael settlement, invaded Emresh and Raboud villages, south of Doura town, southwest of Hebron, and attacked several homes.

         Israel is currently holding captive nearly 4900 Palestinians, including at least 190 children and 14 women. At least 142 Palestinians are currently held under arbitrary administrative detention orders without charges or trial. (T/P012/P04/E1).

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)