Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Saturday rounded up a 19-year-old Palestinian girl who has not been identified yet at Abu al-Rish barrier in the Old City of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said that IOF soldiers at the checkpoint arrested the girl and took her to a police station in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Hefthi Abu Snaina manager of the Ibrahimi Mosque said that IOF troops have been closing the holy shrine before Muslims since Friday afternoon at the pretext of celebrating a Jewish holiday. He condemned the closure and the Israeli repeated incursions into the holy shrine and revealed that the mosque is going to be opened tonight at 9 pm.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Tuesday evening a Palestinian girl allegedly found in possession of a knife near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of al-Khalil city according to the PIC reporter.

The Israeli police said in a statement that an Israeli force arrested the 17-year-old girl after searching her and finding a knife in her bag pointing out that the girl who is from Taffuh town in al-Khalil was transferred to interrogation on charges of attempting a stabbing attack.

Dozens of Israeli military checkpoints are deployed in the Old City of al-Khalil and the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque. The Palestinian citizens are frequently subjected to extensive searches and unjustified arrests.

Dozens of Palestinian young men and women carried out stabbing operations since the eruption of the Jerusalem Intifada in early October 2015 in response to the Israeli settlers’ incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli attempts to impose temporal and spatial division on the holy Islamic site.

For its part the IOF embarked on arresting Palestinian young men and women for allegedly carrying knives or intending to carry out attacks.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian girl on Saturday at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city on charges of possessing a knife.

The PIC reporter said that Israeli soldiers arrested a girl whose identity was not disclosed while she was passing through a military checkpoint set up at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque.

The IOF repeatedly fabricates charges against Palestinians and accuse them of stabbing attempts against Israeli soldiers ever since the Jerusalem Intifada erupted in October 2015.