WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Wednesday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped 12 citizens following violent raids on homes in Qalqilya City.
Israeli forces also stormed the village of Hajjah, east of Qalqilya, and raided homes in its eastern neighborhood, where they reportedly seized a house and displaced its residents.
In Tulkarem, Israeli forces kidnaped four citizens, including three brothers, following raids on homes in the city.
In Tubas, soldiers kidnaped a young man from his home and raided several homes in the town of Tamun, south of the city.
In Nablus, the IOF stormed the town of Beita to demolish two homes belonging to two prisoners from the family of Dawoud and forced families in the western area of the town to leave their homes.
In northern Nablus, a citizen suffered fractures after Israeli soldiers savagely assaulted him in the village of Yasid.
A large number of troops also stormed the village of Burin, southwest of Nablus, ransacking homes and using some of them as military posts.
In Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers detained a citizen for several hours following a raid on his house in the town of Teqoa before releasing him.
In al-Khalil, Israeli soldiers assaulted and kidnaped four farmers as they were harvesting olives from a grove near the town of ash-Shuyukh.
In a separate incident, a horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked citizens in the hamlet of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, injuring one of them in the face, while Israeli soldiers kidnaped a citizen near the same area.
