The Israeli occupation army at dawn Thursday kidnapped seven Palestinians including an academic from West Bank provinces.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF rolled into the An-Najah Campus dormitory in al-Maajin neighborhood in western Nablus and wreaked havoc on the apartment of lecturer Issam Rashed al-Ashqar 57 before they kidnapped him and seized his car.
Al-Ashqar an ex-prisoner is a lecturer at the Physics Department at An-Najah University. He had previously been sentenced to several prison-terms mostly in administrative detention without charge or trial. He has also been diagnosed with health disorders.
The Israeli occupation army further kidnapped the two Palestinian citizens Amjad Abu Sbeih and Yazen al-Basiti from their own family homes in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The IOF stormed Jenin’s western towns of Anin and Zabouba and cracked down on Palestinian drivers in the eastern outskirts of the city.
A PIC reporter quoted eyewitnesses as stating that the IOF kidnapped the citizen Abdul Nasser Mohamed Yassin 42 from Anin village after they ravaged his home and subjected the family to intensive questioning.
A military checkpoint was pitched by the IOF near the main entrance to Zabouba town.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of other Palestinians from Nablus al-Khalil and Bethlehem’s town of Beit Fajjar.
