The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped last night and at dawn Sunday several Palestinian citizens in different areas of the West Bank and raided a tent belonging to Palestinian and foreign activists near al-Khalil city.
Media and local sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped director of Bisan Center for Research and Development Itiraf al-Rimawi from his home in Ramallah city and a young man called Naser Atta from Deir Abu Mash’al village west of Ramallah.
In Jerusalem the IOF also kidnapped three young men from the family of Abu Khudair in Shuafat refugee camp and two teenagers from the family of Rabie in Abu Dis town.
Another young man was taken prisoner during a raid on his home in al-Khader town west of Bethlehem province. He was identified as Mohamed al-Fawaghra.
In al-Khalil an Israeli military force stormed at dawn Sunday Sarora village in Masafer Yatta area removed and confiscated a solidarity tent and assaulted the activists who were inside it.
Director of Youth against Settlement Issa Amr said that a number of Palestinian and foreign activists came to Sarora as volunteers and lived in a tent to help its natives to renovate their homes and water wells after they were expelled from their village by the Israeli army in 1998.
Amr affirmed that the activists would continue their efforts to help the local residents to live in the village again.
