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| Israel Army Presses Operation in West Bank, Arrests 17 |
| 2014-06-26 |
[AnNahar] Troops searching for three teenagers Israeli says were kidnapped a fortnight ago by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, hard boys, tossed in the clink... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 17 Paleostinians in the West Bank overnight, an army spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The arrests took place across the West Bank and included two Hamas members of the Paleostinian parliament, Paleostinian sources said. The search operation sparked festivities south of the city of Hebron in which an 18-year-old Paleostinian was seriously maimed by a live round to the stomach, Paleostinian security sources. Another Paleostinian, Mustafa Aslan, 22, who was maimed Friday in similar festivities in Qalandia refugee camp outside Jerusalem, died of his injuries, his family said. Israeli security decided to continue its "massive operations," the army's biggest deployment to the West Bank in a decade, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said. The latest detentions raised to 371 the number of Paleostinians arrested in the two weeks since the teens disappeared from a hitchhiking post in the southern West Bank. Of that number, 282 are allied to the Islamist Hamas movement, an army front man told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said soldiers had searched 1,955 locations and raided 64 Hamas institutions. So far there has been no claim of responsibility and no sign of the missing students, with the search focusing on the southern West Bank. |
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