Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday kidnapped 18 Palestinian citizens during raids launched into several West Ban provinces.
Israeli occupation army said in a statement that its forces arrested 18 “wanted” Palestinians involved in popular resistance activities against Israeli targets.
The army said that several Palestinian houses were searched in the campaign claiming that weapons and thousands of shekels used to fund resistance operations were seized.
According to Quds Press the IOF arrested ex-prisoner Khaled Salah at daybreak Monday three days before his wedding after raiding his family house in al-Khader town south of Bethlehem.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF arrested another Palestinian youth in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem while sporadic clashes broke out in the area between Palestinian youths and IOF soldiers. No injuries were reported.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society a number of Palestinian houses were searched and other arrests were reported in Jenin Tulkarem and Jerusalem.
The IOF reportedly stormed Jenin refugee camp and erected temporary checkpoints on the Jenin-Haifa road.
The IOF further raided Al-Judeida town south of Jenin searched the house of the Palestinian citizen Nayef Turkman and interrogated his family.
Meanwhile in Nablus province violent clashes erupted at night in Sebastia after the IOF stormed the town for the second time in the last 24 hours.
Eyewitnesses said that about 7 Israeli patrols entered the town amid heavy firing of sound bombs and teargas canisters.
