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IOF raids homes south of al-Khalil summons citizens

Saturday 22-April-2017

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Saturday raided homes in the southern district of al-Khalil and handed Palestinian citizens summonses for interrogation from the Shin Bet.

Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that soldiers and one Shin Bet officer entered aboard vehicles Khallet al-Dar area south of al-Khalil ransacked the house of ex-detainee Mahmoud Abu Asnainah and handed him a summons for interrogation.

Soldiers also broke into and pillaged two homes in the southern district of al-Khalil particularly in the areas of Wadi al-Qadi and Zif and handed two citizens interrogation orders.

In the west of al-Khalil an Israeli military force set up a makeshift checkpoint on Beit Kahel Bridge where they embarked on intercepting and searching passing vehicles and checking IDs of passengers.

Eyewitnesses said that soldiers at the checkpoints detained a citizen called Khalil al-Atawneh who works at the government hospital in al-Khalil city for about one and a half hours and then released him.

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