The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday kidnapped nine Palestinian citizens including a lawmaker during raids on homes in the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that an Israeli military force broke into and ransacked the house of MP Ibrahim Abu Salem (the parliamentary bloc of Hamas) in Bir Nabala town northwest of Occupied Jerusalem and rounded him up.
MP Abu Salem already spent about 10 years in Israeli jails after his exposure to arrest 11 times. His current arrest rose the number of Palestinian lawmakers in Israeli prisons to seven four of them from the Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas.
Meanwhile al-Khalil city and its villages reportedly saw a heated night of confrontations between local young men and Israeli soldiers during an arrest campaign that targeted ex-detainees and Hamas figures and members.
In the southern neighborhoods of al-Khalil violent clashes between youths and soldiers took place after a horde of Jewish settlers physically assaulted a Palestinian young man as he was going back home from the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city.
Several citizens reportedly suffered from their exposure to tear gas fumes during the clashes.
The IOF also stormed and pillaged several homes in the areas of Ras al-Jura Ayn Sara and Wadi al-Jawz where four young men from al-Qawasmeh family were taken prisoners including two brothers.
Another Palestinian citizen called Saleh Awad was kidnapped from his home during an IOF campaign in Yatta city south of al-Khalil.
Soldiers also clashed with young men after raiding homes in al-Zeitun suburb and Kurbet Zaheda area in al-Khalil.
Similar skirmishes with troops also took place during IOF raids in Yatta city and the towns of Beit Ula and Nuba in al-Khalil.
The PIC was told that the IOF kidnapped Sheikh Anwar Harb a senior Hamas official and teacher Mahmoud al-Sharif from their homes in Nuba town.
In Salfit the IOF detained a young man called Muhanad al-Zeir after summoning him for interrogation.
