Violent clashes burst out at daybreak Tuesday in the West Bank provinces of Jenin and Qalqilya between Palestinian anti-occupation youths and heavily-armed Israeli patrols.
A PIC news correspondent said dozens of Israeli soldiers broke into Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun and showered the area with teargas canisters. Several Palestinians sustained breathing disorders in the assault.
The occupation soldiers ravaged the home of the Palestinian citizen Rashid Redwan and threatened to kill his son Mohamed in case he does not turn himself in to the occupation army.
Another round of fierce confrontations flared up in Jenin’s towns of Rumana and Qabatiya in the northern West Bank where the Israeli forces attacked Palestinian protesters with randomly-discharged spates of teargas grenades.
A checkpoint was also set up by the occupation soldiers on the Jenin-Haifa access road where Palestinian civilians and vehicles have been subjected to intensive inspection.
At the same time Israeli military patrols rummaged into the homes of Palestinian prisoners’ families in the hunt for alleged cash funneled to resistance groups.
