- Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI TROOPS ROUND UP SUSPECTED PALESTINIAN MILITANTS IN HEBRON.
- Date: 25th June 2003
- Summary: (W4) HEBRON, WEST BANK (JUNE 24, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. LV/PAN: SUSPECTED PALESTINIAN MILITANTS WEARING BLINDFOLDS AND HANDCUFFS BEING LED IN LINE BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS; BLINDFOLDED AND HANDCUFFED PALESTINIAN MEN SITTING UNDERNEATH MILITARY CANOPY (5 SHOTS) 1.01 2. GV/PAN: BLINDFOLDED AND HANDCUFFED PALESTINIAN WOMAN BEING LED BY FEMALE ISRAELI SOLDIER
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- Location: HEBRON AND UBEDIYA CHECKPOINT NEAR BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAC1X6TI6NTKMFYJ1NR47RP64SM
- Story Text: Dozens of suspected Palestinian militants were kept
handcuffed and blindfolded in Hebron after Israeli troops
rounded up more than 130 Palestinians in a sweep for suspected
militants.
At the Ubediya checkpoint near the West Bank city of
Bethlehem, Palestinians waited for hours to pass through
Israeli checkpoints.
Outside a civil administration building in Hebron on
Tuesday (June 24) afternoon, dozens of suspected Palestinian
militants were still blindfolded and handcuffed following
Israeli raids in Hebron and Nablus overnight. Some of the
detainees sat under a canopy. Others were lined up and led
away by soldiers for questioning.
Israeli forces arrested over 130 Palestinians in the West
Bank cities of Hebron and Nablus in 24 hours from Monday to
Tuesday (June 23-24).
Israeli soldiers blindfolded and detained at least a dozen
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron late on Monday
(June 23) evening.
Dozens of Palestinians were seen being led into military
jeeps as Israeli troops arrested family members of Hamas
leader Abdullah Kawasme, who was killed by Israeli troops in
the West Bank city of Hebron Saturday (June 21) evening.
Among those arrested was a pregnant Palestinian woman who
was treated for shock and carried away on a stretcher.
A female Palestinian family member of Kawasme, who did not
disclose her name said: "All of us are Qassam (Militant group
of Hamas) and we will get pregnant and bring more boys of
Qassam, and will bring more kids and kill the Israelis. We
hope they will not stay with us one minute and we will teach
our kids, one by one, to kill Jews. We bring more kids and all
of them are Qassam."
The woman, who was holding a toddler, and her family
members screamed and wept as soldiers arrested the
Palestinians.
The latest Israeli round- up of suspected Palestinian
militants has drawn Palestinian charges that Israel was trying
to sabotage efforts to reach a ceasefire.
The raids in Nablus and Hebron, the two largest West Bank
cities, added to tensions surrounding faltering moves to
implement a U.S.-backed "road map" for ending nearly 33 months
of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.
Israel has tightened Palestinian travel in the West Bank
following the raids.
At the Udeniya checkpoint near the city of Bethlehem,
Palestinians waited for hours to pass through Israeli
checkpoints so they could travel onwards to other West Bank
villages.
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