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Locals estimate 60 detained in Shu`fat Refugee Camp raid

By Ma`an News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=259800


Jerusalem – Ma`an – A large deployment of Israeli Border Guards and police raided a number of neighborhoods in the Shu`fat Refugee Camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, and detained over 60 Palestinians affiliated to the Salafi and Fatah movements, according to Ma`an`s correspondent.

The raid included house to house searches to locate weapons, the correspondent said. Those detained include Fawzi Muheisin, Amir Ad-Dibs, Mu’taz Ad-Dibs, Hamza Ad-Dibs, Udayy Abu As-Sa’d, Ibrahim Ad-Dib’I, Hasan Abu At-Tein, Ali Issa, and more than 20 construction workers from the West Bank who reside in the refugee camp.

Amir Ad-Dibs is the son of a Fatah member and, according to locals, his mother was pushed to the ground by Israeli forces during his detention.

The exact number of those detained during the operation is uncertain, with locals estimating over 60.

Israeli police sources said that 11 of those detained were deemed `wanted` and confirmed that the detention campaign is ongoing.

On Saturday, confrontations erupted between young Palestinians and Israeli soldiers manning the military checkpoint at the refugee camp`s entrance as Palestinian youths protested against the inspection policy widely considered as humiliating. A number of complaints have been lodged against Israeli soldiers manning the Shu`fat checkpoint.

Shu`fat Refugee Camp is home to more than 25,000 Palestinian refugees, most of whom were displaced from their homes across Jerusalem. The camp is isolated from Jerusalem by the separation wall, and two military checkpoints were erected at the western entrance of the camp to monitor Palestinian movement.

Residents have to pass through these checkpoints on a daily basis to go about their daily lives.

Earlier on Monday the Anata Refugee Camp was also stormed, with a number of detentions reported.

Separately, Israeli forces stormed the villages of Hajja and Azzun east of Qalqiliya, and detained six Palestinian teenagers.

Locals told Ma`an that Israeli forces raided Hajja at daybreak and detained Munjid Atif Hassan, 17, and Muhammad Arif Thiab, 17, after forcibly searching their family homes.

In Azzun, locals identified those detained as Amjad Jamal Shilo, 19, Ja`far Abdul-Karim, 16, Adham Shahir Salim, 17, and Mustafa Bilal Hussein, 17.

Additionally, Israeli forces detained ten Palestinians in Qalqiliya, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron districts at daybreak.

Soldiers said a home-made rifle was confiscated during the search of a home in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.




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