RAMALLAH (PIC)– IOF troops at dawn Monday kidnapped 12 Palestinian citizens from two villages north of Ramallah city in the West Bank for participation in a peaceful march against confiscation of their lands.
Local sources said that the IOF campaign of arrests in Mazra’a Gharbia and Abu Shkheidem villages included three children three brothers a father and his son and the municipality chairman and one of its members.
The IOF charged the kidnapped with participation in a march organized to protest the confiscation of the villagers’ cultivated lands to expand a nearby Jewish settlement.
Eyewitnesses said that the protestors marched to their usurped lands on Friday and damaged the Jewish settlers’ grape vines that were planted there.
