A number of Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Thursday in abduction sweeps rocking West Bank provinces.
Overnight special Israeli forces kidnapped three Palestinian young men after they chased down a car near Nablus’s western town of Zawata.
According to eye-witnesses a driver accidently rammed a parked car before undercover Israeli officers showed up in the area and dragged the driver to their jeep at gunpoint.
Sometime later the family of Palestinian prisoner Jamal Abu al-Heija said their eldest son Abdul Salem also an ex-prisoner was kidnapped from the targeted car. Another son of al-Heija’s Emad was kidnapped just a few hours later from the family’s home in Jenin.
The occupation forces further broke into the home of the former Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs Wasfi Qubha and kidnapped his son Osama.
Ex-prisoner Mo’tasem Steiti the son of the Hamas activist in Jenin Omar Steiti along with four other Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the city.
Two young men—Rami al-Bazara from Nablus and Wasfi Kubha from Jenin—were also kidnapped in the process.
The sweep culminated in the abduction of at least eight other young men mostly in their early 20s.
At the same time the IOF stormed Qalqilya at the crack of dawn and kidnapped a number of Palestinians among them a child identified as 16-year-old Anas Adbah kidnapped from his family’s home.
A state of panic overwhelmed children at their family’s homes after the occupation soldiers smashed entrance gates of civilian buildings.
A number of Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from their homes following a round of abrupt break-ins.
In the meantime youngster Ibrahim Adawi was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Qalandiya refugee camp north of Occupied Jerusalem.
