AL-KHALIL (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday rounded up a Palestinian student from the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil demolished civilian structures in Occupied Jerusalem and threatened to knock down Palestinians’ family homes in Yatta.
A PIC correspondent quoted local sources in al-Khalil as reporting that the IOF troops stationing at the Wadi al-Nar (Container) checkpoint near Bethlehem stopped a civilian car moments before they forced the Palestinian student Iyad Omar al-Salibi out of the vehicle and dragged him to an unknown destination.
Dozens of Palestinian students and civilians have lately been arrested at the Container checkpoint pitched between Bethlehem and al-Khalil city while they have been heading to their universities and workplaces.
Meanwhile the IOF patrols stormed Azmout village east of Nablus city to the north of the West Bank and launched a frenzy-stricken combing operation spreading a state of panic among children and women.
The Israeli occupation soldiers further broke into Palestinians’ family homes in the area and ransacked them after having locked up the native citizens in single rooms.
The IOF attacks culminated in the abrupt demolition of a number of Palestinian residential and agricultural structures set up east of Occupied Jerusalem under pretext of illegal construction.
The Wadi Helwa Information Center in Silwan city said the invading IOF troops razed three Palestinian homes and agricultural barracks in al-Tur neighborhood to the ground using a drove of bulldozers and military kits without any prior notifications.
The targeted structures owned by al-Zur’ee family and covering an overall area of more than 200 Km2 are a home to at least some 23 Palestinian citizens all of whom have gone homeless due to such an unexpected move.
Observers said the Palestinian land owners have been the only native inhabitants of the area and have set up roots in the spot since the early 1980’s before the Israeli occupation authorities ordered them to leave the area in 2003 soon after Israel’s launch of the construction process of the Apartheid Wall.
Similar attacks cropped up in Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem where the IOF knocked down the wall of a Palestinian home in an attempt to open up a new passageway leading into an Israeli settlement outpost.
The IOF further issued a set of demolition threats targeting two Palestinian houses and livestock structures in Yatta in al-Khalil coordinator of the popular committee against settlement in Yatta Raed Jabour reported.
