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19 West Bankers kidnapped in dawn IOF campaigns

Tuesday 24-October-2017

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Tuesday kidnapped 19 Palestinian citizens in different West Bank areas and confiscated thousands of shekels from a house in al-Khalil.

In a statement the Israeli army claimed the detained Palestinians were wanted and taken in for questioning.

In Bethlehem the IOF kidnapped five Palestinians including two teenagers from their homes in different areas of the city and in the eastern town of Taqua.

The IOF also handed 16-year-old Ahmed Taqateqa from Beit Fajjar town in Bethlehem a summons ordering him to go to a Shin Bet center in Gush Etzion settlement bloc for interrogation.

In Jenin an Israeli military force broke into and ransacked several homes in Qabatiya town and kidnapped five young men four of them from the family of Abul-Rab.

Local sources reported local young men hurled stones at Israeli soldiers during the IOF campaign in Qabatiya adding that soldiers also raided a café and brutalized and questioned its patrons.

In al-Khalil Israeli soldiers and Shin Bet officers stormed Beit Awwa village and confiscated thousands of shekels belonging to a citizen on allegations they would be used to fund activities against Israel.

A young man was reportedly rounded up in the morning after the IOF intercepted and searched a car in the Old City of al-Khalil.

Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers searched a car in the Karantina neighborhood of the Old City and found a plastic box containing five bullets belonging to a young passenger.

The detained young man was identified as 27-year-old Hasan Abu Asnaina.

In a separate incident Israeli soldiers opened fire last night at two Gazan young men after they tried to cross into an Israeli territory east of Jabalia town. Luckily they were unhurt but arrested by a Palestinian foot patrol.

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