WEST BANK, (PIC)
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out raids on homes and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during campaigns in the West Bank.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped a young man from his home in az-Zubaidat village, north of Jericho.
Another young man was taken prisoner at an IOF checkpoint near Qalqilya.
Israeli forces also stormed Beita town in southern Nablus and raided several homes, with no reported arrests.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that the IOF kidnaped today 15 Palestinian citizens during raids in Qalqilya, al-Khalil, Ramallah, Jericho, and Jerusalem
Meanwhile, the Israeli police in Occupied Jerusalem prevented hundreds of Palestinian citizens, especially from 1948 occupied Palestine, from entering the Aqsa Mosque to mark the new Hijri year (Islamic calendar) and intensified the presence of their forces in the Old City.
