At least eight Palestinians have been kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early Sunday following predawn assaults on West Bank provinces.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of seven Palestinians six among whom for involvement in anti-occupation activism.
An IOF statement said the campaign targeted three Palestinian youngsters from Jenin and two from Bethlehem along with another youth and a Hamas affiliate from al-Khalil province.
A Palestinian young man was kidnapped by the IOF from his family home in Nablus’s eastern town of Beit Furik.
A PIC news correspondent said three army patrols rolled into Beit Furik at 3:15 a.m. and cordoned off the home of deceased citizen Jameel Khatatbeh before they kidnapped his 29-year-old son Mohamed and dragged him to an unknown destination.
The IOF further stormed al-Fawar camp to the southwest of al-Khalil and smashed the entrance gates of commercial shops owned by the Palestinian al-Najar family before they kidnapped ex-prisoner Mohamed Mustafa al-Najar and wreaked havoc on his family home.
At the same time the IOF broke into Eastern Betraa town in the northern occupied West Bank province of Jenin in the second such assault in hours.
The assault culminated in the abduction of 29-year-old Sami Ahmad al-Haj Sa’id after they ravaged his family home.
A few hours earlier five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by the IOF from Eastern Bertaa town.
