Several Palestinians were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Sunday in abduction sweeps rocking West Bank provinces.
The list of arrestees included the alleged perpetrator of an anti-occupation car-ramming attack carried out on Road 60 near Husan town west of Bethlehem.
At the same time several Palestinians choked on teargas canisters during fierce clashes with the IOF in Tulkarem’s refugee camp of Nour Shams.
Israeli soldiers stormed the home of the two Palestinian prisoners Abdullah and Rami Fouda before they kidnapped their brother Mohamed. The detainees’ father was rushed to a hospital as a result of the panic inflicted by the Israeli assault.
Two more youngsters were kidnapped by the IOF from their homes in the camp.
Meanwhile Israeli soldiers arrested four Palestinian young men in their 20s of age from Bethlehem province after they wreaked havoc on their family homes.
22-year-old Mahdi Abeiyat was summoned to questioning at the Gush Etzion camp after Israeli officers ransacked his family home.
In the meantime dozens of Palestinians among them children sustained breathing disorders in clashes with the occupation patrols in al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar in the southern occupied West Bank.
Local activist Mohamed Awad said Israeli soldiers targeted Palestinian homes with heavy spates of teargas canisters and ravaged agricultural and residential facilities near Karmi Tsur illegal settlement built on Palestinian land north of al-Khalil.
Israeli soldiers further seized Palestinian cars after they came down heavily on the drivers.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian young man Nidham Khadraj from his family home in Qalqilya and another from Ramallah’s village of al-Mugheir.