December 9, 2009

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday and bulldozed Palestinian cultivated lands, locals reported.

Local sources told PIC reporter that four IOF tanks escorted two bulldozers 200 meters into Palestinian lands.

Meanwhile, the Hamas Movement said in a monthly report monitoring IOF aggression that the IOF troops killed a Palestinian citizen in Gaza and arrested 160 citizens in the West Bank in November.

It said that the citizen was killed southeast of Gaza city during an IOF incursion, adding that the IOF launched 97 raids into the West Bank and the Strip.

The report underlined that the security militias loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office as PA chief had expired in January, rounded up 193 Hamas supporters and cadres in the same month.

It noted that the illegitimate government of Ramallah continued its arbitrary measures against Hamas supporters and sacked dozens of teachers and civil servants for their political affiliation.

Abbas's militias, meanwhile, continued their detention of Hamas supporters and rounded up 15 of them over the past couple of days in the districts of Qalqilia, Al-Khalil, Salfit and Nablus.