WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens on Monday evening and later during dawn and morning raids on Tuesday in the West Bank, amid clashes with resistance fighters.
According to local sources, fierce armed clashes broke out at dawn between resistance fighters and Israeli forces in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that the clashes happened mainly in as-Souk street and the neighborhoods of al-Madares and al-Jammasin.
They added that Israeli soldiers kidnaped a young man from al-Toukhi neighborhood in the camp before withdrawing to the military barriers on the eastern outskirts of Nablus.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces stormed the campus of Birzeit University in Birzeit town, went on the rampage through some of its premises, including the student council, and kidnaped three students participating in a sit-in from the university grounds.
A similar IOF raid had earlier happened at the university, where Israeli forces reportedly kidnaped a number of students and security guards from the campus and ransacked premises.
In a related context, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that the IOF kidnaped at least 29 citizens from different West Bank areas, including one child and one woman, adding that the IOF arrest campaign started on Sunday evening and continued into Monday morning.
In a separate incident, the Tulkarem Brigade said that a group of its fighters attacked on Sunday evening a gathering of Israeli soldiers at the illegal settlement of Avnei Hefetz in the south of Tulkarem, without providing further information.
