The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday three Palestinians from Beit Kahel and al-Aroub refugee camp north of al-Khalil and another Palestinian was arrested in Jerusalem.
In al-Khalil local sources reported that IOF stormed al-Fawwar refugee camp arrested the student Muhammad Mustafa al-Hasaniyya 24 from al-Khalil University and beat up his brother and seized a laptop.
The IOF soldiers arrested Ibaa Emad El-Din Wozouz from Al-Deek area south of al-Khalil after they raided his house searched it and tampered with its contents.
IOF soldiers also arrested a 19-year-old university student Izz al-Din Asafra from Beit Kahil town north of al-Khalil.
The sources pointed out that IOF set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to several towns stopped citizens’ vehicles searched them and checked ID cards.
In Occupied Jerusalem the Israeli police arrested Akram Ghassab Ebeid 19 from his home in al-Issawiya village.
The IOF soldiers continue their daily search and arrest campaigns and terrorize residents especially women and children. These campaigns are followed by confrontations with Palestinian youths.
Earlier on Saturday evening clashes erupted between the IOF soldiers and dozens of Palestinian youths in the Bab Al-Zawiya area of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses reported that during the confrontations IOF fired tear gas canisters sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at the youths who responded by throwing stones and empty bottles.
Bab Al-Zawiya Square is located at the main center of al-Khalil city and is surrounded by many military bases and settlement outposts.
For 25 years the occupation authorities have been implementing a separation policy in the center of al-Khalil city aimed at enabling Israeli settlers to live in the center of an overcrowded Palestinian city.
According to the Oslo Agreement parts of al-Khalil including the Old City and the neighborhoods of Tel Rumeida and Salaymeh and others are under Israeli control.
This allowed the occupation to impose strict and severe restrictions on the movement of citizens and established 21 permanent military checkpoints that humiliate citizens when crossing them.
Al-Khalil suffers from the presence of more than fifty settlement outposts in which about thirty thousand Jewish settlers live.
