NABLUS (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched at dawn Saturday a large-scale raid and arrest campaign in the towns of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, and Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Israeli Special forces infiltrated Burqa town, followed by reinforcements consisting of 20 military vehicles, and broke into a big number of citizens’ homes.
The IOF occupied the square area in the center of Burqa and turned it into an interrogation field.
IOF soldiers broke into the home of the young man Tamer Saif and sabotaged its contents, brutally assaulted him, and arrested him while he was bleeding, along with other detainees.
Among the identified detainees was the ex-prisoner Ammar Salah, who was arrested after destroying the car of his brother, ex-prisoner Munjid Salah.
Israeli soldiers deliberately destroyed citizens’ property during the storming of the town, breaking the windows of the cars parked in the streets and in front of residents’ homes.
Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance fighters confronted, at dawn Saturday, the IOF storming of the town of Silat al-Harithiya, northwest of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
Clashes erupted between resistance fighters and the IOF in several axes in the town, as the resistance fighters were able to detonate a number of anti-personnel and anti-vehicle bombs in infantry soldiers and military vehicles.
The resistance fighters also targeted the IOF soldiers and their military vehicles with a volley of bullets.
Local sources reported that the IOF encircled the house of the Al-Qassam Brigades martyr Rafat Dawasa (known as al-Tayyeb), while snipers were deployed on buildings’ rooftops in the town.
