At least 19 Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday in abduction sweeps launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
According to the head of the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families Amjad Abu Asab the IOF kidnapped five Palestinian civilians from their family homes in Jerusalem’s northeastern town of Al-Issawiya.
The occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of 14 Palestinians from the West Bank ten among whom were wanted for being involved in anti-occupation activities.
The IOF kidnapped eight youngsters from Ramallah’s eastern northern and western corners along with four others from Husan town near Bethlehem.
Reporting from Tulkarem a PIC news correspondent said the IOF rolled into the city and kidnapped the Palestinian youth Ghazi Raed Ghazi Al-Haj from his own family home in Belaa village to the north.
The IOF also stormed Tulkarem’s southern corners and wreaked havoc on civilian homes.
Sounds of bullet fire have been detected all the way through the assault.
The IOF ravaged three civilian homes in Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun in the northern West Bank using excavation machines. Cracks were inflicted on the walls and floors of the targeted houses in the assault on claims of searching for weapons.
At the same time the IOF broke into Al-Khalil province and rummaged into the home of Mohamed Fawzi Abu Nejma in Abu Esneineh neighborhood in Al-Khalil before they summoned his 15-year-old son Saeb to questioning at 11 a.m.
The IOF stormed the Al-Arroub Camp in northern Al-Khalil and turned a number of Palestinian homes upside down.
Prisoner Dhia Al-Titi’s home had also been subjected to abrupt searches while his wife was summoned to questioning in the assault.
The assault culminated in the abduction of youngster Sa’id Al-Natsheh at a flying checkpoint in Wadi Sa’ir to the northeast of Al-Khalil and another from Yatta town to the south.
