WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday, kidnaping Palestinian citizens from homes and clashing with local youths.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped two citizens from their homes in Tulkarem’s Iktaba suburb.
Another citizen was taken prisoner following an IOF raid in Bal’a town, northeast of Tulkarem.
In Jenin, Israeli forces detained and assaulted a number of young men in the village of Jalbun and opened fire at a Palestinian car near the rotary of Arab American University.
Israeli forces also stormed the towns of Zababdeh and Aqaba in Jenin, where they ransacked several homes and kidnaped a citizen and his son.
In Nablus, the IOF demolished an agricultural structure and a water pipeline in the village of Beit Dajan.
In Bethlehem, clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers in the towns of Beit Fajjar and Teqoa.
Israeli forces raided a school graduation ceremony in the Umm al-Rukba area of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, detaining several Palestinian citizens before withdrawing.
The IOF also carried out raids in other areas of the West Bank, with no reported arrests.
In a separate incident, a horde of extremist Jewish settlers brutally assaulted a young Palestinian from Awarta town while he was in the al‑Arma area of Beita, south of Nablus.
Those settlers also attacked a house in the same town and dumped piles of garbage at its entrance.
