The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) over the past few days have arrested five Palestinians during raids into different West Bank provinces.
The Israeli army in a statement Monday announced that its forces since the beginning of the week have arrested five Palestinians who are allegedly involved in popular resistance activities against Israeli targets.
The statement said that the IOF during the same campaign confiscated a sum of money that was used by Palestinian factions for anti-Israel operations.
Violent clashes broke out at dawn in Jenin city during an IOF campaign to arrest a “wanted” Palestinian.
Eyewitnesses told Quds Press that the IOF soldiers surrounded the house of the Palestinian citizen Raed Abu Sorour in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin adding that armed clashes flared up before Abu Sorour managed to withdraw from the area.
According to medical sources five Palestinians suffered different injuries during Jenin clashes.
Other confrontations and arrests were witnessed in many areas in Occupied Jerusalem Sunday night.
The Israeli police assaulted a crowd of Palestinian citizens in Bab al-Amud area in an attempt to force them out of the place. As the citizens refused to obey the police orders the latter responded by heavily firing sound bombs ignoring the presence of women children and old people.
Bab al-Amud area was later emptied of Palestinians and blocked with iron barriers. Local sources reported that a Palestinian young man was arrested during the confrontations.
The Hebrew website “0404” said that two Israelis a policeman and a settler were wounded Sunday night after being thrown with stones by Palestinian youths.
Hebrew media sources revealed that a Palestinian working at Dan Panorama hotel in Jerusalem was arrested after attempting to steal the gun of an Israeli security guard Sunday evening.
The website “0404” reported that the Palestinian worker was taken for interrogation and accused of planning an attack.
Violent confrontations between Palestinian youths and the Israeli police were reported in al-Tour and al-Ram towns east and north of Jerusalem respectively. The Israeli police heavily fired sound bombs and teargas canisters at the youths who responded by throwing stones.
Meanwhile a group of Palestinian youths attacked an Israeli settlement near Jabal al-Mukabber town south of Jerusalem with fireworks.
Local residents said that the Israeli police following the attack raided different neighborhoods of the town arrested two Palestinian youths and took them for interrogation.