Palestinian students arrested

The Israeli army yesterday said it had arrested between 20 and 30 Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank it accused of being "terror operatives" of Islamist group Hamas.  Palestinian sources told AFP that dozens of students from Birzeit University were arrested as they were returning by bus from the village of Turmus Ayya. Birzeit University in a statement voiced concern over the fate of its students and condemned the arrests as "a violation of all international laws and norms that guarantee students' right to movement".