WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot dead four Palestinians, including two minors, during a military raid on Al-Faraa refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tubas on Monday.
Palestinian Health Ministry affirmed the martyrdom of the four young men by IOF gunfire, three of them were shot right in the head and the fourth was shot in the chest.
The martyrs were identified as Rashed Habib al-Aidi, 17, Mohammad Sameer Melhem, 17, Hikmat Sameer Melhem, 24, and Yazan al-Khateeb, 20.
IOF soldiers broke into the camp from Al-Hamra military checkpoint, leading to confrontations with the residents and armed clashes with resistance fighters who confronted the IOF incursion into the camp, amid a tight Israeli siege on the camp and its valley.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers stormed the city of Nablus in northern West Bank from various axes. Resistance fighters repelled three Israeli vehicles with gunfire in Palestine Street and Al-Shuhada Square. The severe clashes led to the injury of a Palestinian young man with Israeli bullets.
The IOF also raided several towns in Qalqilya governorate in northern West Bank, leading to clashes between resistance fighters and IOF soldiers who stormed Palestinians’ houses, arrested a number of young men, and injured another.
Local sources reported that six Jerusalemite men were rounded up by Israeli police in Abu Dis town and Um Touba in southeast and south of Occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli police wreaked havoc in the houses of the detainees, the sources added.
Other IOF raids and arrests were also reported in cities, towns, and refugee camps in the governorates of Tulkarem, Al-Khalil, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ramallah, and Jenin. Clashes also erupted in various locations with the IOF soldiers who searched, wreaked havoc in and sabotaged Palestinians’ houses and properties, especially the houses of a number of Palestinian prisoners.
The IOF arrested 19 Palestinians distributed in the abovementioned governorates, in addition to the six Jerusalemite detainees. The detainees included university students, anti-settlement activists, women, former prisoners, young men and people in their forties and fifties.
