At least nine Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from the West Bank and Jerusalem at daybreak Sunday.
The Israeli occupation army claimed in a statement responsibility for the abduction of three Palestinians from Ramallah’s northeastern town of Silwad at predawn time on allegations of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
A PIC news correspondent confirmed the piece of news adding that the three Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from their own homes.
15-year-old child Amjad Hamed was reportedly among the three Silwad arrestees.
The Israeli occupation soldiers further stormed Beit Fajjar town south of Bethlehem and wreaked havoc on civilian homes before they kidnapped four Palestinian youngsters.
Meanwhile Israeli soldiers and policemen broke into Jerusalem’s northeastern town of Hizma and kidnapped the Palestinian youngster Ali Askar. Others were summoned to questioning in the assault.
Another Palestinian youth—Ihab Abu Dheim—was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his family home in Jabal al-Mukabbir in Occupied Jerusalem.
The occupation troops also stormed Nablus’s Old City and Ourata village and rummaged into civilian homes and commercial shops. Several Palestinians had been subjected to exhaustive questioning in the process.
According to eye-witnesses the IOF broke into the Old City of Nablus in over 20 army jeeps via the western entrance to the city triggering panic among civilians.
At the same time a number of Palestinians choked on teargas shortly after the Israeli forces stormed the northern occupied West Bank province of Qalqilya and attacked the anti-occupation protesters with randomly-shot spates of teargas grenades.
The Palestinian protesters reportedly responded to the attack by hurling stones at the heavily-armed occupation patrols.
A round of home break-ins was carried out by the IOF all the way through the assault.
