Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Israel launches all-out war on Islamic institutions in the West Bank


Under the pretext of fighting Hamas

From Khalid Amayreh in Nablus


Learning aids trashed at this Nablus school by IOF soldiers


"......The Israeli army on Tuesday, 8 July, rampaged through the northern town of Nablus, raiding schools, businesses, charities, sport clubs and a major medical center.

Eyewitnesses said as many as 130 Israeli military vehicles and armored personnel carriers stormed Nablus’s downtown shortly after forces loyal to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas were ordered by the town’s nominal governor Jamal Muhesen to return to their barracks and stay there until a further notice.

Thousands of American-trained Palestinian “national security forces” are stationed in Nablus, but their tasks are confined to fighting anti-Israeli activists, particularly members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad organizations.

The targets of the latest Israeli rampage include a girl school, which was thoroughly vandalized, an important medical center which offers free or semi-free health services to the poor and the unemployed, a commercial mall, a recreational center, and an insurance company and the offices of a number of NGOs.

One of these NGOs is the Nafha Society which monitors Israeli treatment of Palestinian political and resistance prisoners in Israeli jails and detention camps...... "

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