Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday night and at dawn Monday several citizens including released prisoners in various areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
In al-Khalil IOF arrested the ex-prisoner Baha Zahdeh 41 after raiding his home in the Al-Haraiq area and searching many houses for the Zahida and Dais families.
IOF arrested the released prisoner Ismail Al-Nattah after storming his home in Idna town west of al-Khalil. Nattah was released from the Israeli prisons only two months ago.
The IOF soldiers also raided several neighborhoods in al-Khalil and set up military checkpoints at the entrances to the towns of Sa`ir and Halhul and at the northern entrance to the city. Citizens’ vehicles were searched and their ID cards were checked.
In Bethlehem IOF arrested the boy Hamza Al-Harimi 17 after storming his family’s house in the Wadi Maali area searching it and tampering with its contents.
In Ramallah IOF arrested Muhammad Atta and the ex-prisoner Mahmoud Safi during a raid of the village of Deir Abu Mishaal west of Ramallah.
The IOF soldiers arrested Omar Abu Ruwais and Muhammad Abu Ghazaleh after storming Al-Amari refugee camp near the city of Al-Bireh.
In Nablus IOF arrested Abdel Rahman Dashon after raiding and searching his house.
A large number of the IOF soldiers broke into Burin village south of Nablus and Aqraba town southeast of the city and searched the home of Riad Lafi.
Meanwhile Yusef Khatatbeh 40 from Khirbet Tana in Beit Furik town east of Nablus was wounded after settlers attacked him.
In Occupied Jerusalem and its suburbs the Israeli police arrested Abdullah al-Sayyad from al-Tur village and Jamal Abu Khdeir from Shu’fat north of the city.
Security cameras in Ar’ara village in northern 1948 occupied Palestine (Israel) documented the violent assault by the Israeli police against citizens.
The police also carried out a massive arrest campaign in the village of Kafr Kanna.
Local sources said that the Israeli police have arrested six young men including the wounded Wajdi Hamdan amid the ongoing campaign of arrests in the village.
The Arab Emergency Committee in the 1948 occupied territories said that it had monitored more than 2200 arrests and 300 cases of attacks on Arab residents or their property during the recent events.
It pointed out that since the beginning of the so-called Law and Order campaign almost 100 Arab citizens are being arrested every day.
