The Israeli army kidnapped 12 Palestinian militants in an overnight raid into autonomous Palestinian territory in the northern West Bank, a military statement said Saturday, as quoted by AFP. Meanwhile, the occupation army demolished the house of a Fateh activist who carried out an operation in Afula.
The Tel Aviv-based Haaretz newspaper said that the army destroyed the house of Nader Mohammed Hamdar, a Fateh activist who carried out a shooting attack in the Afula bus station approximately one month ago. Hamdar killed a soldier and two civilians, and wounded several others before being shot and killed by policemen.
An Israeli unit backed by armor entered the village of Araqa, west of Jenin, on the trail of Palestinians who shot dead an Israeli woman at the wheel of her car on Friday.
The troops arrested 12 Palestinians "suspected of involvement in terrorist activities" Hada Abutbul, 39, was killed when gunmen fired on her car as she was driving past the village of Yabed. She was returning to her home in the Mevo Dotan settlement from her workplace in the Shaked settlement. Abutbul was hit in the back, and her vehicle then plunged into a wadi on the side of the road.
An organization linked to the Fateh movement, the Popular Army Front - Brigades of Return, claimed responsibility for killing the settler.
"The uprising and the resistance will continue because it is our and the Palestinian people's choice," the group said.
Meanwhile, 30 fragmentation grenades were thrown upon Israeli outpost near Egyptian border; no injuries reported, said Haaretz – Albawaba.com
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