IOF Troops Kill Fighter of Aqsa Brigades after Kidnapping Him, and a Civilian

27 February 2008

NABLUS, (PIC)-- The IOF troops killed on Wednesday morning a wounded fighter of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the dissolved armed wing of Fatah, called Ibrahim Al-Misaimi, 25, in the Nablus city, northern West Bank after they kidnapped him and put him in jail.

Palestinian local sources reported that Misaimi was injured during an Israeli incursion in the Tal street west of Nablus, where the IOF troops also wounded two other citizens including his brother Wa'el.

Informed sources said that Ibrahim was killed in the Israeli jails, while his brother's wounds were described as critical, adding that the IOF troops kidnapped three other citizens and shot a construction worker in his stomach.

The PA unconstitutional government in the West Bank had announced the dissolution of all formations of AMB, where many of the Brigades' fighters surrendered their weapons and signed a pledge to renounce resistance against the Israeli occupation.

Palestinian eyewitnesses reported IOF troops boarding civilian cars infiltrated into the Tal street again and opened fire at three Palestinian citizens walking in the street and brutally dragged two of them on the ground as they were bleeding.

The invading IOF troops also stormed the house of Naseef family in Nablus and turned it into a military post and have been stationed in the house until the moment of preparing this report.

The IOF troops stormed and ransacked last night a number of houses in Jenin, its refugee camp and the Abu Da'eef town east of Jenin, where they kidnapped eight Palestinian citizens and took them to an unknown destination.

The IOF troops also kidnapped on the same day journalist Jihad Shehada, the director of the Bayan office for press and information in the north of the Salfit city, northern West Bank, after they forced him to get off from his car, and took him to an unknown destination blindfolded and in chains.

In a related context, the IOF troops resumed its new campaign which started on Tuesday against Palestinian charities in Al-Khalil city, southern West Bank, where they broke into and ransacked four charitable societies in the villages and towns near the city.

The IOF troops had announced the confiscation of the Islamic charitable society in Al-Khalil with all its branches and assets and also decided to confiscate the buildings, assets and buses of the Muslim youth association in the city.

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian local sources reported that the IOF troops kidnapped at noon Wednesday four Palestinian citizens near the Yasser Arafat airport, east of the Rafah city in southern Gaza during infiltration into the area and took them into their military posts.

An Israeli air strike killed on Wednesday evening a Palestinian citizen called Manwr Abu Mendil and wounded a woman with her husband in an agricultural field in Jabaliya, southern Gaza Strip.