WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched on Wednesday a large-scale raid and arrest campaign in the West Bank.
In Qalqilya, the IOF troops stormed several local homes and arrested a Palestinian boy and an ex-detainee.
The IOF also imposed a security cordon around the Abu Obeida Mosque area, and assaulted a worker from Qalqilya Municipality.
Similar raids were carried out in several areas of Ramallah and Al-Bireh.
The IOF also raided exchange companies in Ramallah.
The two detainees, Saeed Iyad Al-Hajj Muhammad and Munjed Awad Al-Naasan, were released after they were arrested and violently beaten yesterday in Al-Mughayyir town, northeast of Ramallah.
In Nablus, the IOF arrested at least five citizens last night in Burin town.
The IOF also detained two brothers in Rujib town, east of Nablus, and another young man in the Shuweika suburb in Tulkarem.
Meanwhile, three settlers were injured on Wednesday morning in a shooting attack in Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank.
The settlers were trying to reach Joseph’s Tomb in the eastern area of Nablus before Palestinian resistance fighters shot them.
The settlers were able to escape the scene after suffering gunshot injuries.
