PALESTINIAN POLICE INVESTIGATE ALIEN KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT

On October 19,1997 the Israeli newsmagazine Yerushalayim reported that the
Palestinian Police were investigating their first alien kidnapping.

The event occurred three days before when a young girl, Suha A'anam from
the village of Dir Al Awasan near Tulkarem, was rescued by fellow villagers
from the clutches of an alien. The Police report states that Suha, a grade ten
pupil, was standing on her 2nd floor balcony when suddenly an alien began
pulling her left hand. She screamed hysterically, alerting neighbours to the
scene just in time to save her. She was taken to Tulkarem Hospital with
scratches to her arm.

A neighbour told the Police that she heard a noise like a helicopter, looked
out her window and saw "a whirlpool in the air, spreading ash everywhere"
opposite Suha's balcony.

Two other witnesses saw aliens the same week. Six days before, sixteen year
old Muhand Faras was walking home from school when he came upon a
strange being of a man's size but with a small "root" in the middle of its
face.
It's skin was colored "like a frog's," it had two tiny hands with three
fingers on
each and long fingernails. The alien made a threatening, clawing gesture at
Muhand's face, screamed something and "flew to the sky." He does not know
where the creature flew because he "was too frightened to look at it anymore
and thought it might shoot something dangerous" at him.

Three days later, an engineer, Raid A'anam saw a black creature in the sky
just before sundown. He told police investigators that the outline of the
flying object was "human with two arms and two legs."

Palestinian Police have since set up ambushes to trap the "intruders" and put
an end to the villagers' terror. Needless to say, many villagers believe the
Israeli intelligence agency, the Shabak is behind the sightings. When asked
why the Israelis would stage such an incident, the villagers answered, "To
scare us."