A number of Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from the West Bank and at daybreak Tuesday.
At predawn the Israeli army claimed responsibility for the abduction of seven Palestinians on allegations of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Overnight the Israeli police claimed that two Palestinians including a minor were arrested near the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil over an attempted anti-occupation stabbing attack.
The two captives were identified as Jamil and Ali al-Ajalouni both arrested at Abu al-Rish military checkpoint.
The IOF also stormed the home of the Palestinian lecturer at An-Najah University Mustafa al-Shanar in western Nablus in the second such assault carried out over the past couple of days in the hunt for his 26-year-old son Muntasser former coordinator of the Islamic Bloc at An-Najah University.
Clashes flared up in the area shortly after the IOF cordoned off al-Shanar’s home and attacked the Palestinian youths with teargas canisters and sound bombs.
Dr. al-Shanar said the Israeli forces stayed at his home for over a couple of hours and a half and turned his furniture and personal belongings upside down.
Al-Shanar added that the Israeli soldiers forced him at gunpoint to knock at the doors of 10 neighboring apartments at 03:00 a.m. before they stormed the whole lot of them and smashed the door of an empty apartment.
The Israeli troops threatened to execute al-Shanar’s son in case he does not turn himself in within a few hours.
A couple of days earlier al-Shanar was rushed to a hospital and underwent a cardiac catheterization due to a severe heart attack sustained shortly after the IOF stormed his family home and summoned all the family members to interrogation at Hawara military camp.
The family members also said they received over 100 threatening phone calls from Israeli intelligence agents.
Last month the Israeli forces kidnapped al-Shanar’s 20-year-old son Assem enrolled at An-Najah University.
At the same time Israeli army troops broke into Palestinian family homes in Rafidia and al-Mekhfiya in the hunt for Palestinian students affiliated with the Islamic Bloc at An-Najah University.
The assault coincides with the student council elections held at An-Najah Campus.