The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched at dawn Thursday a large-scale raid and arrest campaign throughout West Bank and occupied Jerusalem. Ex-prisoners minors and university students were among the reported arrests.
At least five Palestinian youths were detained as IOF stormed several towns south of Nablus including the ex-prisoner Mohamed Allan who waged a hunger strike for 65 days in Israeli jails before his release in 2015 according to the PIC reporter.
Similar raids were carried out in Jenin province where a 20-year-old youngster was detained in Jalama town.
IOF also raided the house of Hamas’s spokesman Abdul Basset al-Haj and interrogated him for hours before leaving the area.
Meanwhile a PIC correspondent reported that dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Arraba town in Jenin province accompanied with a number of bulldozers and leveled the evacuated Dotan military camp.
A military checkpoint was also erected in the town where several Palestinian vehicles were stopped and searched.
Along the same line a university student was detained after IOF soldiers violently stormed and searched his family house east of Tulkarem while a military checkpoint was erected at the main road leading to Nablus.
Two more arrests were carried out in Qalqilia while violent clashes broke out in Bethlehem as IOF stormed the city amid heavy firing of teargas bombs.
IOF confiscated a lathe machine during the raid local sources said.
In Occupied Jerusalem Israeli police arrested three minors aged between 13 and 16 for allegedly being involved in stone-throwing incidents.
The detainees were taken to a nearby police station in al-Tur town for investigation.
