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An official source from the Silwan defense committee said that the invading Israeli force included a number of armored military and police vehicles carrying dozens of armed troops and policemen, the Palestine Information Center reported. Meanwhile, Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel on Saturday, saying that the killing of five Egyptian security personnel by Israeli forces pursuing men across the border was a breach of its 1979 peace treaty with the Zionist regime. Egypt “lays on Israel the political and legal responsibility for this incident, which constitutes a breach of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel,” the cabinet said in an official statement posted on its website. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry will summon the Israeli charge d’affaires to “convey Egypt’s official protest over gunfire from the Israeli side in a way that led to victims falling inside Egypt,” the state news agency MENA quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying. He said the Israeli ambassador was not in Cairo. The official added that Egypt plans to ask for a “formal joint investigation to uncover the circumstances of the incident and pin down those responsible and take legal procedures to safeguard the rights of the Egyptian victims and casualties.” The police chief in occupied Jerusalem and a number of senior officers were part of the attacking force. Palestinian prisoner Ishak Arafah was also seen handcuffed and with shackles on his legs while being escorted by soldiers. Local sources reported that Arafah’s house was one of the many houses raided by the Israeli troops, who forced many families to evacuate their houses. The troops used dogs and electronic devices during their sweep. In addition, a Palestinian young man named Nezal Aqel was kidnapped on Saturday morning by Israeli troops from outside his home in the Assammar area between the neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Shuafat, according to the local sources. Eyewitnesses reported that Aqel was standing outside his home along with some friends when Israeli troops in a military vehicle arrived and provocatively ordered them to show their IDs and without reason began beating and cursing them before some neighbors intervened and saved the young men from the soldiers. They added that the troops left the area, but after a while a female soldier escorted by male troops appeared, and without prior warning, sprayed Aqel’s face with pepper spray before taking him handcuffed to an unknown location. The mother of the young man reportedly fainted after she saw what happened to her son and was taken to hospital. In Al-Khalil city on the same day, a 16-year-old named Saleh Shehadeh was also kidnapped by Israeli troops from his home in the Abu Sunaina neighborhood. Four other Palestinian young men were kidnapped Friday morning by the Israeli security forces in the Old City of Jerusalem and were accused of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. The latest airstrike on the Gaza Strip hit the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza late on Friday night, killing two men. According to Al Jazeera, the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, confirmed that one of the men, Emad Abu Abda, was a member of the group. The other man’s identity and possible affiliations are not known. In response to the Gaza attacks and at the request of the Palestinians, the Arab League said it would hold a meeting on Sunday afternoon.
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| Last Updated on 23 August 2011 17:25 | |||
