WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched overnight a campaign of arrests and raids in different areas in the West Bank, targeting a number of citizens, including freed prisoners.
In Nablus, the IOF arrested two young men from Sebastia town, northwest of the city. The IOF raided several houses in the town, tampered with their contents, and arrested the wounded Ayman Al-Sha’er and the freed prisoner Qutaiba Azem before withdrawing from the town.
Qutaiba Azem is a Palestinian activist and has been arrested several times in Israeli occupation and Palestinian Authority’s prisons.
In Jenin, the IOF rounded up two citizens from the Al-Yamoun town, west of the city. Local sources reported that a number of occupation vehicles stormed the town, where the occupation soldiers raided the homes of citizens and arrested the two young men, Osam Hoshiya and Imad Nawahdeh.
In Ramallah, the IOF invaded the village of Kafr Malik, arrested the citizen Hussein Mashhour and two of his children, including the freed prisoner Qassam, and confiscated their vehicle, before releasing the father Hussein Mashhour and keeping his two sons in custody.
The IOF also arrested the youth Obada Mohammed Qneis, 23, from Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem, after raiding his family’s house.
A number of citizens suffered from suffocation on Sunday evening when IOF soldiers stormed Beit Fajjar town, south of the city, and fired teargas canisters, according to local sources.
On Monday morning, the IOF broke into the tourist area of Solomon’s Pools, located between the town of Al-Khader and the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem.
The IOF raided the area from the southern entrance of the town of Al-Khader, known as “Al-Nashash”, and deployed in the vicinity of Solomon’s Pools, under the pretext of providing protection for settlers who had earlier announced their intention to storm the area.
In Al-Khalil, the occupation bulldozers started bulldozing lands in Al-Burj town, south of the city, threatening to confiscate more lands for settlement expansion.
These violations come within the framework of the occupation’s continued escalation in the West Bank, targeting historical sites and agricultural lands.
Palestinian calls have been launched to escalate resistance and confrontation against the occupation and its settlers in the West Bank.
