[ 17/04/2011 - 09:17 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation police forces stormed the Silwan town, south of the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday triggering confrontations with young men.
Local sources said that Israeli border guards and police stormed three suburbs in the town firing bullets and teargas at random at residential neighborhoods causing breathing problems to many civilians.
They said that young men threw stones and crude firebombs at the police jeeps as plain clothed security men were seen roaming the alleys in a bid to arrest citizens.
The Hebrew radio said on Sunday that the Israeli police rounded up seven Jerusalemites over the past few days on suspicion of throwing stones and firebombs at police vehicles.
It claimed that the youth confessed to the charge of organizing riots in Silwan and would face a trial hearing in the central court on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian minor in Al-Khalil's Old City on Saturday night as he was heading home.
Local sources said that the soldiers took the 15-year-old Mutaz Mohtaseb to the nearby Kiryat Arba settlement.
IOF soldiers at dawn Sunday stormed the city of Jenin and nearby villages but no detentions were reported. The soldiers installed a roadblock between Jenin and Nablus and searched vehicles on Sunday morning.
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