Several Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Wednesday in abduction sweeps launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Clashes burst out in Jenin’s southern town of Qabatiya shortly after the IOF stormed the area and ransacked civilian homes.
The occupation forces showered residential neighborhoods with spates of bullet fire and teargas grenades resulting in injuries.
Heavy material damage was wrought on civilian homes in the assault.
At least five Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the area.
Tension has been running high in Qabatiya in anticipation of the demolition of the home of the Palestinian citizen Yousef Abu al-Rub whose son has been accused by the occupation authorities of involvement in an anti-occupation attack.
Another Palestinian youth was kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin’s southern town of Yabad.
At the same time six Palestinians were kidnapped by the occupation soldiers from Ramallah province in the central West Bank.
At predawn time Israeli military troops stormed Salem town east of Nablus and rummaged into civilian homes before they kidnapped Anas Eshtih 19 and Malek Hamdan 18 from their family homes.
20-year-old Aymen al-Atrash was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his home in al-Khalil province.
Israeli army troops also showed up across al-Khalil’s towns of Dura Yatta and Beit Ummar and carried out a round of military maneuvers.
Overnight Palestinian civilians had been denied access out of and into al-Arroub refugee camp in al-Khalil after the occupation soldiers sealed it off with metal gates.
