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Friday, July 24, 2009

Israeli troops detain PPP man at Azzun gate

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Qalqiliya – Israeli troops detained 19-year-old Palestine People’s Party activist Diya Muhammad Younis at the entrance of Azzun village early Friday. Younis was detained as he travelled out of the village. Soldiers stopped him at an improvised checkpoint on the road leading out of the area, and took him to an unknown location.

Locals say Israeli forces are frequently stationed at the road gate, one of the 613 closure obstacles in the West Bank, and regularly pull locals out of taxis and detain them. Azzun village is surrounded on all sides by the Israeli separation wall, illegal settlements and a settler-only bypass road.

Israel built a two-lane road tunnel beneath the settler road to maintain separation between the road systems. It is the only road out of the village.
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