Illegal occupier israel arrests Mother, 2 Sisters of Palestinian gunman

Israeli security forces gather at the site of a reported attack at the Barkan Industrial Park near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank on October 7, 2018. (AFP Photo)

Illegal occupier israeli forces arrested the mother and two sisters of the 23-year-old Palestinian gunman who killed two Israeli's in the Barkan industrial zone in occupied West Bank Tuesday, local residents said.

An Israeli military force raided Shawbka neighborhood in the city of Tulkarem and detained Wafaa Naalwa, 45, and her two daughters at their home, the residents said.

"Israeli soldiers searched Naalwa's family and questioned her family members before withdrawing from the area," one of the residents said.

There was no comment from the Israeli military on the arrests.

On Monday, Israeli forces briefly arrested the sister of the suspected shooter in the West Bank city of Nablus for questioning.

On Sunday, two Israelis were killed and another was injured in a shooting attack in an industrial area near the settlement of Barkan in the central West Bank.

The shooter had fled the scene unscathed.

Israeli media said the attacker was a former Palestinian worker from Tulkarem.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces rounded up seven Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank.

The individuals were arrested for "suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities," the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the nature of these activities.

The Israeli army frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank on the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians.

According to Palestinian figures, some 6,500 Palestinians continue to languish in Israeli detention facilities, including scores of women and hundreds of minors.

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Israel army in pursuit of Palestinian who killed two Israelis

Palestinians wait at an Israeli checkpoint near the scene of a shooting attack at Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank on Sunday. (AP)

The Israeli military says forces are in pursuit of a Palestinian assailant who shot and killed two Israelis at a West Bank factory.

The military says troops are in the attacker’s hometown of Shweika, in the northern West Bank, on Tuesday. The military has named the suspect as Ashraf Na’alwa.

Several Palestinians have been arrested for questioning.

Sunday’s attack took place in the Barkan industrial zone, near the large Israeli settlement of Ariel, where thousands of Israelis and Palestinians work side by side.

The attacker killed 28-year-old Kim Yehezkel, a mother of an infant son, and Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year-old father of three, before fleeing, according to the Associated press.

Barkan has been touted as a rare example of Israeli-Palestinians coexistence. An Israeli woman also shot in the attack says a Palestinian treated her wounds.

On Friday,Three Palestinians including a 14-year-old boy were killed by Israeli fire on Friday on the Gaza border, as clashes erupted with security forces during protests, the enclave’s health ministry said. Read more

Since last March, at least 191 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, the majority during border protests.

Smaller numbers have been hit by airstrikes or tank fire, according to AFP.

The protests are demanding the right of Palestinian refugees to be allowed to return to their homes, now in Israel.

Israel says any such mass return would mean the end of it as a Jewish state and accuses Hamas who controls Gaza, of orchestrating the protests.

Source: Alarabiya

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Illegal Israeli regime raids Palestinian village harshly

Israeli security forces stand at the entrance of Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank. A Palestinian attacker opened fire at joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial zone in the West Bank, killing two Israelis and seriously wounding a third, the military said. Image Credit: AP

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli illegal regime’s security forces raided the village of a Palestinian suspected of shooting two Israelis dead, the army said on Monday, making arrests while the assailant himself remained at large.

Ashraf Naalwa, 23, from the northern West Bank village of Shuweika, has been named by the Israeli occupation army as the Palestinian behind Sunday’s attack in the occupied West Bank industrial area of Barkan where two Israelis were killed and a third wounded.

Regime soldiers, as well as police and Shin Bet internal security officers “operated in the village of Shuweika, north of Tulkarem,” the military said.

It said security forces “arrested” an unspecified number of people suspected of aiding the attacker while a manhunt for the gunman was still underway.

A spokesman for the Shin Bet said they had arrested Naalwa’s brother, while his sister was “detained, questioned and released”, declining to provide further details.

Naalwa was employed at the same plant in the northern West Bank site as his two victims - Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hagbi, 34.

The industrial zone is located next to the Israeli colony of Barkan and near the colony of Ariel in the north of the West Bank.

Palestinians work side by side with Israelis in the industrial zone.

A third woman also shot in the attack was hospitalized in stable condition.

Levengrond Yehezkel, who was buried late Sunday, had been bound to a chair by Naalwa with cable ties before being shot, according to her father.

Naalwa used a homemade gun, known locally as a “Carlo”, according to the occupation army, in what security forces believe was a “lone-wolf attack,” meaning he was not part of any organization or acting on its behalf.

A wave of Palestinian protests against Israelis broke out in 2015, but they have since become sporadic.

Source: Gulfnews

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Israeli Settlers destroy 40 olive trees in village near Ramallah

Israeli settlers on Sunday morning have cut and destroyed about 40 olive trees in the town of Turmusaya, north of Ramallah, in the West Bank.

According to local sources, farmers who went ot their lands today found out that over 40 olive trees in their own lands near the settlement outpost “Adi Aad” have been cut down and destroyed.

This is the second consecutive attack on olive trees in the area during this week. This month is the season for “olive picking” in Palestine, known for its quality product of olives and olive oil.

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