ISRAELI TROOPS ARREST TWO PALESTINIANS NEAR NABLUS

Nablus, 11 Rabi’ul Akhir 1436/1 February 2015 (MINA)– Israeli forces on Saturday evening detained two young Palestinian men in the Nablus district of the northern West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces stormed the village of Burin and apprehended 17-year-old Abd al-Rahman Dawood Salih, Ma’an News Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The raid came only hours after Israeli soldiers shot dead a young man named Ahmed Ibrahim Jaber al-Najjar, 19, in the village.

The sources said that the teen arrested Saturday evening in the village was a relative of al-Najjar.

Separately, Israeli soldiers arrested Ibrahim Shawahna from the Nablus area at a flying checkpoint near the village of Deir Sharaf south of Nablus.

An Israeli military spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment. (T/P010/R04)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)