Armed clashes broke out at dawn Tuesday between a Palestinian resistance fighter and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) after the latter encircled a house in Bethlehem City.
According to local sources a large number of Israeli troops stormed Wadi Maali area in the city and encircled a house after receiving information that a wanted ex-detainee called Ayyad al-Harimi from the Islamic Jihad Movement was inside it.
Harimi exchanged fire with the Israeli forces after they demanded him through a megaphone to surrender.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers showered the house with bullets and attacked it with projectiles before storming it but they failed to arrest Harimi who managed to escape from the house.
The IOF also broke into and ransacked several nearby houses in the area and kidnaped eight citizens from the family of Harimi.
