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| Middle East |
| Operations in Nablus, Qalqilyah and Hebron |
| 2002-07-02 |
| Israeli troops returned to Qalqilyah on Tuesday afternoon, several hours after pulling out of the West Bank city and lifting the curfew, which was later put back in place. In Nablus, Assad Halbuni, a senior Hamas operative wanted by Israel, was arrested in the central Casbah area by security services. The army said it lifted the curfew in Hebron to allow students to take exams, but then rounded up about 300 Palestinian students at a college for questioning, witnesses said. Soldiers ordered men and women students at the Palestinian Polytechnic Institute, a two-year-college, into separate yards and checked identification cards and questioned students, witnesses said. There was no immediate word on whether any students had been detained. Relatives of Hebron police chief General Sharif Abu Maalik said he was detained by Israeli forces for more than five hours before being released. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |