The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday arrested 21 Palestinians in raids launched in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Israeli occupation army said in a statement that 14 of the detainees are wanted over involvement in anti-Israel activities.
Violent clashes erupted at dawn in Qalqilya after the IOF soldiers stormed the city and arrested four Palestinian citizens including a mother and her two sons.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF heavily fired tear gas canisters at the Palestinian citizens.
Other confrontations broke out in Azzun town while Israeli undercover soldiers were deployed in large numbers at the town’s entrances.
The PIC reporter said quoting local sources that the IOF arrested four ex-prisoners during a raid into Asira al-Qibliya town north of Nablus.
According to the Israeli army’s statement the IOF confiscated a sum of money after searching a number of houses in the town for allegedly being used to fund resistance operations.
About nine Palestinians were arrested in campaigns launched in Salfit and Jerusalem while the PIC reporter in al-Khalil said that the IOF raided and searched houses of Palestinian ex-prisoners in the city.
