At least 21 Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Thursday in an abduction sweep rocking the West Bank.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Palestinian youths from the Bethlehem-based Aida refugee camp.
A PIC news correspondent identified the arrestees as: Assaad Darwish Ali Mohamed Abu Surur Ali Ahmad Abu Surur Mohamed Jumu’a Aweis Abdullah Hamad Mohamed Awdeh Majd Abu Khdeir Mustafa Kneis Samed al-Ateiq Ramzi Qawarirou Fathi Abu Surur and Islam Jawarish.
Three other youngsters were kidnapped by the IOF from Irtah village in Tulkarem Jit town in Qalqilya and Jama’in in Nablus.
At the same time the occupation army arrested the Palestinian youngster Mahmoud al-Sabateen in Bethlehem’s western village of Hussan and three others in al-Khalil province.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of two Palestinians from Tubas on account of their affiliations with Hamas resistance movement.
