The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) claimed they detained at dawn Thursday about 30 Palestinian citizens mostly university students from the Islamic Bloc of Hamas during arrest campaigns in different West Bank areas.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that a large number of Israeli troops aboard military vehicles stormed different neighborhoods of Nablus city at dawn and kidnapped several young men from their homes.
Some of the detainees were identified as Mousa Duwaikat representative of the Islamic Bloc and member of an-Najah University’s student council Mohamed Ramadan Ahmed Dirwish and Bara al-Amer. All of them are university students
The IOF also kidnapped a young man called Walid al-Ashqar a resident of Kafr Qalil town from his workplace near the headquarters of the Nablus municipality as well as two other young men from their homes in the city.
In al-Khalil local sources told the PIC that the IOF broke into and ransacked a house in Khirbet Tawwas west of Dura town and rounded up a young man called Abdul-Hakim Abu Arqoub.
The IOF also kidnapped a female student at Palestine Polytechnic University during a campaign in al-Khalil. She was identified as Bayan Khamaysa.
10 other young men were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in Bethlehem and Jenin according to different local sources.
In Qalqilya the IOF stormed and searched the house of Shaker Radwan in Azzun town and demanded him to turn in his son Mohamed who was not at home during the raid.
The IOF also launched campaigns in Qalandiya refugee camp and Kafr Aqab neighborhood in Jerusalem and detained three young men identified as Hasan Sajdiya Mahmoud al-Lawzi and Jihad al-Sanjalawi.
