April 7, 2011
NABLUS (AFP/Ma’an) — Israeli troops stormed the village of Awarta on Thursday morning, arresting more than 100 women in what local officials said was part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of five settlers in March.
Hundreds of troops entered Awarta – the village adjacent to Itamar, and illegal settlement where the murders took place – shortly after midnight and imposed a curfew after which they began rounding up the women, local council head Tayis Awwad said.
Soldiers continued to conduct house-to-house searches through the night, the officials added, while Palestinian security sources confirmed the report.
This was the fourth intensive raid of the village where scores were detained, the first coming the day after an unidentified attacker stabbed to death five members of the Fogel family, including two children and an infant.
But Thursday’s raid marked the first time they had arrested any women, Awwad said.
In the wake of the murders, Awarta has been the centre of a massive manhunt. The village was put under military closure, and a curfew was imposed for five days between 12 and 16 March. Some 40 men were detained during the closure, and since then two more mass round ups were reported by local officials.
Those detained have been questioned and subject to DNA testing, officials said last week.
So far no one has been charged, with the military refusing to comment on the operation.
Awarta was the second village put under closure overnight, with locals in the Tubas area saying the Israeli army, backed by military bulldozers, entered the village of Aqaba where two homes were demolished.
Witnesses said six bulldozers and hundreds of soldiers were deployed throughout the village during the demolition.
Sami Sadeq, head of the village council, said two streets leading out of the village were also torn up, effectively rendering them useless for travel, forcing residents to take long detours and exit via the main entrance of the village.
Sadeq said some 95 percent of the structures in the village have demolition orders issued on them, including the village’s grand mosque, kindergarten and homes.
The bulldozing destroyed electricity poles at the entrance of the village, and the homes of Mohammad Hassen Subieh and Abed An-Naser Ahmad Subieh, the official said.
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