ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/CLASH Palestinians, Israeli soldier wounded during West Bank raid

Record ID: 140546

  • Title: ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/CLASH Palestinians, Israeli soldier wounded during West Bank raid
  • Date: 1st September 2015
  • Summary: JENIN, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 1, 2015) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN YOUTHS GATHERED AROUND FIRE YOUTHS THROWING WOOD INTO BONFIRE YOUTHS FLEEING AS AUDIO OF GUNFIRE BEING HEARD AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT SITE FIRE ENGINE ARRIVING AT SITE AMBULANCE BEING PARKED YOUTHS FLEEING, AUDIO OF EXPLOSION AMBULANCE AND FIRE ENGINE BEING DRIVEN AWAY ISRAELI BULLDOZER PREPARING TO DEMOLISH HOME NIGHT VIEW OF AREA MORE OF BULLDOZER PREPARING TO DEMOLISH HOME PALESTINIANS GATHERED AT SITE OF RAID AT DAWN VIEW OF RUBBLE WHERE HOUSE WAS DEMOLISHED, AUDIO OF PEOPLE SHOUTING 'GOD IS GREAT' PALESTINIAN MEN EMBRACING EACH OTHER MAN LOOKING AT RUBBLE FIREFIGHTERS CLIMBING ON RUBBLE PALESTINIAN MAN STANDING AMIDST REMAINS OF DEMOLISHED HOME VARIOUS OF MATTRESS AND BROKEN FURNITURE STREWN AMID RUBBLE ABANDONED SHOES AND BROKEN FURNITURE CLOSE OF WHEEL STREWN AMID RUBBLE PALESTINIANS GATHERED AT SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EYEWITNESS OMAR GHARAYEB, SAYING: "At 10 o'clock at night we started hearing that the military was in the area. I went out to the balcony to see and I was shocked to see a big military force in the street. At the same time I saw military in the house yard, when he (one of the soldiers) saw me he raised his weapon. I asked him to lower his weapon because there were kids around me but he started shooting in the air and told me to go inside the house and close the doors. So we did." VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GOING THROUGH RUBBLE MORE OF RUBBLE MAN HOLDING REMAINS OF AMMUNITION VARIOUS OF UPROOTED OLIVE TREES FIRE ENGINE PARKED ON SITE
  • Embargoed: 16th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7UMQ9KV7RII1TZQX219M7336I
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Five Palestinians and an Israeli border policeman were wounded in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank to arrest a Hamas militant, the Israeli army and local medical officials said on Tuesday (September 1).
    The fate of the wanted man was not immediately clear: the army said troops demolished a house, in the city of Jenin, in which he was suspected of hiding, after they came under gunfire.
    A Hamas source in Jenin identified the suspect as Bassam al-Saadi and said he was a member of the smaller Islamic Jihad group.
    The source said two Hamas activists were detained by the Israeli forces.
    In a statement, the army said hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the scene during the operation late on Monday (August 31) into the early hours of Tuesday of and that the crowd threw rocks and petrol bombs at the troops.
    Palestinian medical officials said five Palestinians were wounded by rubber bullets. Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said a member of an Israeli special forces unit was shot and wounded, apparently by friendly fire.
    In the early hours of Tuesday, after the army pulled out, dozens of Palestinians gathered in the area to assess the damage.
    "At 10 o'clock at night we started hearing that the military was in the area. I went out to the balcony to see and I was shocked to see a big military force in the street. At the same time I saw military in the house yard, when he (one of the soldiers) saw me he raised his weapon. I asked him to lower his weapon because there were kids around me but he started shooting in the air and told me to go inside the house and close the doors. So we did," said a local resident, Omar Gharayeb.
    Israeli troops enter Palestinian-controlled territory frequently to detain people suspected of militant activity.
    Palestinian officials condemn this practice as an encroachment on the limited self-rule they hold in parts of the West Bank. Palestinian militant groups have accused the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, which maintains security cooperation with Israel, of turning a blind eye to such operations.
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