WEST BANK: ISRAEL HAS SEIZED A TOP PALESTINIAN MILITANT IN THE WEST BANK TOWN IN JENIN

Record ID: 400888

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAEL HAS SEIZED A TOP PALESTINIAN MILITANT IN THE WEST BANK TOWN IN JENIN
  • Date: 1st October 2003
  • Summary: (W3) JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV OF ISRAELI TANKS AND MILITARY VEHICLES IN THE REFUGEE CAMP (2 SHOTS) 0.20 2. SLV/PAN ISRAELI TANK OUTSIDE BLOCK OF FLATS, WOMAN ON BALCONY IN BACKGROUND (2 SHOTS) 0.46 3. SLV PALESTINIAN CHILDREN THROWING STONES AT TANKS 1.00 4. LV MILITARY VEHICLE DR
  • Embargoed: 16th October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVADX2C6GLDSTYJKFNQZJJT0RD5W
  • Story Text: Israel has seized a top Palestinian militant in the
    West Bank town of Jenin.



    Israeli soldiers captured a leader of the Islamic
    Jihad militant group hiding underneath a car during a raid
    on Wednesday (October 1) in a refugee camp near the West
    Bank city of Jenin, witnesses said.

    An Israeli military source confirmed that Sheikh Basaam
    Sa'adi had been captured, but the army did not comment.

    Palestinian witnesses said Sa'adi was a top leader of
    Islamic Jihad in the West Bank and that he had been wanted
    by Israel for two years.

    The witnesses said soldiers backed by helicopters and
    tanks raided a section of the refugee camp before dawn and
    told residents to evacuate the area, as they carried out
    house-to-house searches for suspected militants.

    Sa'adi, 42, was found by sniffer dogs beneath a car
    parked outside a mosque, the witnesses said. Three other
    Palestinians were also arrested in Jenin, they said.

    Islamic Jihad has carried out dozens of attacks that
    have killed hundreds of Israeli during a three-year-old
    Palestinian uprising for statehood.

    In other Israeli military raids, troops seized several
    suspected militants near the West Bank cities o Nablus,
    Ramallah and Hebron, the army said. Witnesses said soldiers
    blew up 12 homes and a tunnel used to smuggle weapons from
    Egypt into the Gaza Strip.

    lh/jrc



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