Violent clashes broke out after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided Kobar village near Ramallah at dawn Friday.
Local sources reported that the IOF broke into a number of houses in the village and wreaked havoc on them including the house of the Palestinian martyr Mohammed Dar Yousef who carried out an anti-occupation stabbing attack on Friday.
Dar Yousef was killed on Friday evening inside the Israeli settlement of Adam built by force on Palestinian lands in Jaba’ town north of Occupied Jerusalem after he carried out a stabbing attack in which an Israeli settler was killed and two others were wounded.
Kobar’s mayor Izzat Badwan said that IOF soldiers in large numbers stormed the village raided Dar Yousef’s house searched it and took its measurements in preparation for its demolition.
Badwan added that the IOF soldiers arrested three Palestinians in the village: Nasrallah Mesh’al 17 Mohammed Mesh’al 21 and Khaldoun al-Barghouti 42.
He pointed out that the IOF further blocked the road between Kobar and Burham villages with sand barriers.
Local residents said that fierce clashes erupted in Kobar and neighboring villages between IOF soldiers and Palestinian youths. A number of Palestinian citizens suffered breathing difficulties as the soldiers heavily fired teargas canisters.
