Israeli troops kidnap 30 Palestinians during incursion into Khan Younis

The Palestinian Information Center, May 1, 2008

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– A large number of IOF troops reinforced by tanks, bulldozers and aerial cover invaded amid intensive gunfire at dawn Thursday the Farahin neighborhood in the east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip and kidnapped 30 Palestinians.

Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that the invading IOF troops stormed many houses moving from one house into another through demolishing the internal walls and kidnapped 30 Palestinian citizens, while the military bulldozers were sabotaging agricultural lands in the area.

For its part, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced in a communiqué received by the PIC that its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with the invading troops and fired four mortar shells at them.

In a monthly report received by the PIC, the international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights stated that the IOF troops killed during last April 83 Palestinians, 76 of them in Gaza, while they kidnapped in the same month 480 others including 64 children under age 18 and four women.

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