WEST BANK, (PIC)
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed last night and at dawn Sunday different areas of the West Bank and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens, amid clashes with local youths and resistance fighters.
According to local sources, a large number of Israeli troops stormed Qalqilya City and encircled two homes in al-Qaraan neighborhood and near the interior ministry before asking their residents through a megaphone to gather outdoors. No arrests have been reported.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces clashed with local youths in Qalqilya City and fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at them. Armed clashes with resistance fighters also took place in the city.
In Nablus, the IOF went on the rampage through a cellphone store in a raid in the city and clashed with resistance fighters in Rafidia neighborhood.
The IOF raided other stores, destroyed an automated teller machine (ATM) and confiscated security camera recordings in Nablus City, according to eyewitnesses.
Local sources in Nablus also reported that Israeli soldiers searched a car and kidnaped a young man after ransacking his home and confiscating all the cellphones belonging to him and his family during a raid in al-Maajin neighborhood in the city.
In Bethlehem, IOF soldiers stopped a car at the Container checkpoint and forced three passengers to leave it before rounding them up and closing the road.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces kidnaped two citizens from their homes in Kafr Ni’ma village and a journalist identified as Mahmoud Barakat from Burqa village.
Two other citizens were taken prisoners during IOF raids on homes in Tulkarem City and Anabta town in eastern Tulkarem.
