- Palestine
- March 3, 2010
- 2 minutes read
IOF soldiers raid southern Gaza, cut trees and round up 19 in WB

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided agricultural areas east of Khan Younis to the south of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday, local sources said.
They told the PIC reporter that a number of IOF tanks escorted huge bulldozers that advanced 200 meters into the area east of Qarara and damaged Palestinian land and property.
Local sources in Beit Jala, Bethlehem district in the West Bank, said that IOF bulldozers cut off tens of olive trees and damaged cultivated land lots on Tuesday.
They added that the operation was linked to the building of the racist, separation wall that passes through Beit Jala and confiscates its most fertile land.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers rounded up 19 Palestinians in Beit Ummar village, Al-Khalil district, and occupied Jerusalem.
Locals said that the soldiers rounded up 6 Palestinians in Beit Ummar and Al-Khalil city including a child, adding that the child and another youth would stand trial for throwing stones at soldiers.
In occupied Jerusalem, a joint force of the occupation police, intelligence and special forces broke into several homes before rounding up 13 Palestinians and took them to Maskobeh interrogation center.