Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday abducted nine Palestinian citizens during large-scale home raids in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The IOF arrested three Palestinian young men over alleged weapon possession after stopping their car at Hizma Checkpoint near Jerusalem.
Two Palestinians including a minor were kidnapped from their homes in al-Isawiya town in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile in the West Bank four Palestinians three of whom aged 17 were kidnapped in home raid campaigns in al-Khalil Jenin and Qalqilya districts.
Local sources reported that the IOF tightened the siege imposed on Ya’bad town in Jenin stormed several Palestinian homes wreaked havoc on them and assaulted their residents.
The IOF blocked the main entrance to the town with cement blocks and warned Palestinian citizens against entering or leaving the area according to the same sources.
Palestinian journalist Laila Hamarsha said that the IOF violently broke into her family’s home in Ya’bad and assaulted her father brothers uncle mother and grandmother who were all transferred to a hospital for treatment.
The IOF has waged a collective punishment policy against the Palestinian residents of Ya’bad arresting whole families closing main roads and expelling citizens from their homes.
This followed the killing of an Israeli soldier by a rock thrown at him from a Palestinian building during an arrest campaign in the town on Tuesday.
