Such Israeli actions are a provocation to undermine the ceasefire in Gaza. How can a ceasefire remain in place when Israel conducts so many menacing operations in the West Bank, kidnapping, wounding and killing Palestinian civilians? Hamas' demand that the ceasefire also apply to the West Bank was very sensible, yet one didn't hear the Palestinian Authority collaborators making a similar demand. The partial ceasefire applying to Gaza can't possibly work, but then what else can one expect from the Israelis?


Saturday June 28, 2008 12:49author by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

During a military operation targeting the village of Beit Omer located near the southern West Bank city of Hebron the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and kidnapped nine other civilians on Friday night.

Witnesses told IMEMC that military jeeps stormed the village on Friday afternoon then searched homes during the search troops kidnapped nine men among them were 70 year old man.

The operation last until 9:00 in the evening, Mohamed Awwad, a local journalist said. He added that soldiers then started to move out and took positions at the village entrance. Awwad told IMEMC that a military jeep stormed the village again and then fired sound bombs and tear gas at the villagers.

Mohmaed Al Allami, 17 years old, was painting his house, he went to see what is happing outside his family home Israeli soldiers shot him three times in the hart, Awwad added.

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