WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched overnight and at dawn Tuesday a large-scale raid and arrest campaign across the West Bank, storming many Palestinian homes, arresting, and abusing residents, leading to the eruption of confrontations and armed clashes between resistance fighters and IOF soldiers. Some injuries among Palestinians were reported.
Israeli troops raided several cities, towns, and refugee camps in the West Bank, particularly in Tubas, Tulkarem, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, and Al-Khalil governorates in addition to Jerusalem.
As a result, fierce clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters on one hand and the Israeli soldiers and settlers on the other.
In Tubas, Israeli troops, and Jewish settlers, who were escorted by military bulldozers and military reinforcement, raided the city, arrested three young men, including two brothers, and injured a fourth young man who was shot in his leg and was transferred to hospital. Sounds of bombing and shooting were heard during the incursion.
Two young men were also rounded up in Burqa town in Jenin after storming, searching and wreaking havoc inside their homes. In Nablus, the IOF continued to encircle the city tightly amid breaking into its houses and assaulting the residents.
Two other young men were arrested in Tulkarem and Ramallah, while a group of fanatic Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians’ houses in Sinjil town, north of Ramallah, leading to clashes with the IOF soldiers while withdrawing from the city.
Meanwhile, the IOF raided Bait Ummar town in northern Al-Khalil, arrested a young man and confiscated his car.
As for Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police rounded up two young men from Bait Sourik and Beddo towns in northwest Jerusalem. One of the two detainees was released during the latest prisoner swap deal.
At dawn hours, Israeli forces were heavily deployed in the streets of Shuafat refugee camp in Occupied Jerusalem.
