VARIOUS: Israel arrests dozens of Palestinian militants in West Bank raid, kills two in Gaza

Record ID: 699514

  • Title: VARIOUS: Israel arrests dozens of Palestinian militants in West Bank raid, kills two in Gaza
  • Date: 21st September 2007
  • Summary: (BN13) BORDER BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GAZA, ISRAEL (SEPTEMBER 20, 2007) (REUTERS) ISRAELI TANK DRIVING IN BORDER AREA SMOKE RISING FROM GAZA STRIP AS SEEN FROM ISRAELI SIDE OF BORDER VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS DRIVING AN ARMOURED VEHICLE IN BORDER AREA MORE OF ISRAELI ARMY TANKS IN GAZA
  • Embargoed: 6th October 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA7QW92HRC5OU8YAJ3FTX0XEEXT
  • Story Text: Israeli troops arrested dozens of Palestinian militants in the West Bank town of Nablus on Thursday (September 20), the army and local residents said, while Israeli force operating in central Gaza Strip killed two Palestinians.
    On the third day of an ongoing Israeli army raid into al-Ein refugee camp in the city of Nablus, soldiers arrested some 30 Palestinian gunmen, an army spokeswoman said. During the forces' activity, some buildings where militants were taking cover were demolished, local residents added.
    On Wednesday (September 19) Israeli soldiers shot and killed a member of the Islamist Hamas group in Nablus. Hospital staff named the dead man as Adeeb e-Sleem, 28 years-old, a Hamas activist in Nablus. E-Saleem was the fifth Palestinian to be killed in clashes in the West Bank in the past four days. Israel has said all the dead were gunmen.
    On Tuesday (September 18), an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed in fighting in the same area.
    In Gaza, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in fighting during an incursion into the coastal Strip, local ambulance workers and hospital officials said.
    Gunmen confronted the Israeli force and set off explosives, and an Israeli helicopter also took part in the clashes, the medical crews said.
    Ambulance workers in Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip said they retrieved the body of one Palestinian, who was not immediately identified.
    A second man, identified as a 22-year-old militant, was also killed in the raid, hospital officials said.
    An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said an Israeli force shot a gunman during "activity against a terrorist infrastructure" in the Gaza Strip.
    Israel pulled soldiers and settlers out of the coastal territory in 2005 but has continued to carry out raids in the area to try to curb cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
    Israeli troops arrest dozens of Palestinian militants on the third day of a raid into the West Bank town of Nablus while in the central Gaza Strip, Israeli forces kill two Palestinians.
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