RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Two citizens were injured on Tuesday, after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assaulted them during their storming of the town of Azzun in Qalqilya, as part of a raid and arrest campaign across the West Bank.
Local sources reported that the IOF stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, escorted by a large number of military vehicles from the western entrance, while foot patrols stormed the town from its northern and eastern entrances, and besieged it from all sides.
The sources explained that two young men were moderately injured after being assaulted during the storming of the town, adding that the IOF raided more than 25 homes, and carried out searches, vandalism, and destruction of their contents, before arresting a number of citizens.
The sources further elaborated that the assaulted men were identified as Ayman Abu Haniya and Muhammad Hawari, after raiding and searching their homes, and tampering with their contents.
The same sources indicated that the IOF detained a number of the town’s residents, subjected them to field investigation in the home of the citizen Muhammad Suleiman, which was turned into a military barracks, before releasing them later.
The IOF also stormed the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and launched a campaign of raids without any arrests being reported.
Local sources reported that IOF also raided the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, in central West Bank, noting that footage posted on social media shows Israeli vehicles roaming the streets of the town.
The IOF confiscated a Palestinian vehicle after storming the town of Yatta to the south of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.
Meanwhile, the IOF stormed the al-Abyat area, east of Bethlehem, stormed the house of citizen Ahmed al-Abyat, searched its contents, and withdrew without reporting any arrests, according to local sources.
In Nablus, the IOF stormed the town of Kafr Qalil, to the east, and arrested the young man Jasser Abu Hamada from his home.
The IOF also stormed the towns of Beita and Madama, south of Nablus, and blocked traffic in the latter.
Local sources reported that the IOF closed, with earth mounds, three entrances connecting Madama village to the villages of Asira al-Qibliya and Burin, and the military checkpoint of Al-Murabba’a.
The sources noted that the IOF has been isolating the village since yesterday evening, after closing its entrances, declaring a curfew in the village, storming a number of its neighborhoods, and firing live bullets and stun and tear gas grenades at the citizens’ homes, which led to complete paralysis in all aspects of life.
