WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces detained on Tuesday morning four Palestinian young men, while extremist settlers detained two other citizens in the West Bank.
According to local sources, Israeli forces at the eastern entrance of al-Khader town in southern Bethlehem detained four citizens, handcuffed and blindfolded them, and forced them to sit on the ground. There was no information if they were released later.
Meanwhile, a horde of settlers detained two citizens in eastern Salfit, one of them was chief of the Iskaka village council Osama Daher, as they were checking on swaths of Palestinian land that were seized recently by settlers.
Daher said that settlers attacked him and his friend as they were visiting swaths of land in the area of Hawd al-Waer in the east of Iskaka village and detained them for over one hour before releasing them.
He added that the settlers from the illegal outpost of Nofei Nehemia bulldozed recently about 200 dunums of land belonging to local residents in the area in order to build a road for themselves.
He pointed out that this road would be located near Palestinian homes in the area.
