Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Commanders, Demolish Homes

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Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Commanders, Demolish Homes

Israeli troops arrested a Palestinian military leader and his son at daybreak in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Palestinian sources said.

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Israeli troops arrested a Palestinian military leader and his son at daybreak in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Palestinian sources said.

The military leader was identified as Yehiyeh Daamseh, a bombing expert and the local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. ��

The Palestinian sources said armored bulldozers destroyed his house. The demolition came just a day after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the Israeli army's right to destroy homes of suspects without warning.

Israel accused Daamseh of having sent several Palestinian suicide bombers to the Jewish state, including the one who blew himself up in a Jerusalem neighborhood in March, killing 11 Israelis.

Daamseh was among the most-wanted militants in the area.

Another Palestinian militant commander, alongside five others, was arrested earlier in the day in the village of Yatta in the WestBank town of Hebron.

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