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IOF arrests Palestinian activist ex-prisoner in West Bank

Friday 12-May-2017

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian activist and an ex-prisoner during a military campaign conducted on Thursday evening until Friday at dawn in various parts of the occupied West Bank.

According to Quds Press the IOF stormed Nur Shams refugee camp to the east of Tulkarem city and arrested the activist Taha al-Irani the head of the popular services committee in the camp.

The IOF arrested more than 40 Palestinian youths from the camp in the intensified arrest campaigns launched against it in the recent months.

The IOF stormed Deir al-Ghusun town to the north of Tulkarem raided a house and a workshop owned by the Palestinian citizen Basheer Abu Zaitun and wreaked havoc in them.

On Thursday evening the IOF arrested the released prisoner Yousuf al-Tartir 24 who is from al-Masaken al-Shaabiyya neighborhood in Nablus at al-Karama crossing which links between the West Bank and Jordan.

The Palestinian youth Nadim al-Asa 25 from al-Ubeidiya town to the east of Bethlehem was handed an order to appear before the Israeli Intelligence in Gush Etzion settlement after his family’s house was raided and searched.

The IOF raided and searched two Palestinian houses in al-Yamun town to the west of Jenin city and interrogated their owners.

Large-scale arrest and raid campaigns targeting Palestinian activists are launched in various areas of the occupied West Bank on a daily basis.

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