Holy Land: Israeli forces destroy water pipeline, arrest dozens, attack fishing boats

Feb 20th, 2017

Israeli military bulldozers destroyed a drinking water pipeline funded by the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

The drinking water pipeline was 8.5 kilometres long, and provided drinking water to at least 47 families. This was the second pipeline destroyed by the Israeli army this month.

On the same day Israeli soldiers abducted at least 22 Palestinians In the West Bank in dawn raids and violently searched dozens of homes, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. In a statement, the Israeli army said its soldiers arrested twenty-two Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Nablus, Jenin, Qalqilia, Ramallah and Al-Biereh, Jerusalem and Hebron.

On Monday Israeli navy ships also opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats Gazan territorial waters in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and near the coast northwest of Gaza city.

There were no reported injuries in these incidents.

Source: UNICEF/PPS

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