At least 11 Palestinians including children were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from the West Bank and Jerusalem at predawn time Sunday.
The occupation army claimed in a statement responsibility for the abduction of four Palestinians on allegations of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
The campaign targeted Palestinians from Jerusalem’s northwestern towns of Beit Anan and Qatna along with others from Bethlehem’s towns of Husan and Beit Fajjar in the West Bank.
Prior to the abduction sweep the IOF wreaked havoc on the arrestees’ family homes.
Local sources said the IOF rolled into Bethlehem province and kidnapped the ex-prisoner Mahmoud Thawabta from Beit Fajjar.
Another ex-prisoner—Anas Taqatqa—was kidnapped from Umm Salamouna village in Bethlehem. The IOF reportedly seized Taqatqa’s private car.
14-year-old minor Mohamed Abu Yabis was kidnapped by the occupation soldiers from his own family home in Husan village to the west of Bethlehem.
Another Palestinian youth from Nablus was arrested at a military checkpoint pitched near Jericho city.
The Israeli military forces further stormed Nablus’s southeastern town of Ourata in the northern West Bank and ravaged civilian homes before they subjected the residents to intensive questioning.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of two Palestinians from Beit Anan and Qatna towns in Occupied Jerusalem.
Four minors in their 17’s of age were also kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhood of al-Tour.
On Saturday evening 16-year-old Faysal Shabana was arrested by the occupation forces following clashes rocking al-Tour.
At nightfall on Saturday the IOF also kidnapped the Palestinian ex-prisoner Majd Azem from Sebastiya town to the north of Nablus after they smashed his vehicle and subjected him to aggressive beating.
