IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian after crossing southern Gaza border fence

15 أبريل/نيسان 2014 الساعة . 10:11 ص   بتوقيت القدس

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian young man after crossing the southern Gaza Strip border fence afternoon Monday.

A field observer told Quds Press that three Palestinian young men managed to cross the border fence to the east of Khan Younis into 1948 occupied Palestinian territory.

He said that IOF soldiers arrested one of them while the two others managed to escape into 1948 occupied lands, adding that the soldiers were combing the area in search of the two others.

Israeli sources said that a Palestinian youth from Gaza was detained in Eshkol area in the western Negev and was taken for interrogation.

The Israel occupation authority detains more than five thousand Palestinians in its prisons including 415 from Gaza Strip.