JENIN (PIC)– Around 5 Palestinian citizens were kidnapped at the hands of the IOF troops in the West Bank town of Kufrdan west of Jenin city at dawn Wednesday amidst frenzied arrest campaigns those troops are executing throughout the West Bank on daily basis.
Four of the abducted Palestinians are brothers Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses confirmed.
In Nablus city Palestinian minor Mutasem Al-Kuraini 16 was rounded up after large numbers of IOF troops raided and ransacked his home in the city’s Askar refugee camp.
A number of nearby homes were also stormed by the occupation soldiers before pulling out of the area local sources revealed.
Six other Palestinian citizens were captured in an IOF troops’ raid on the Ethna town west of Al-Khalil city also at dawn Saturday. The six kidnapped citizens were blind-folded and taken to an undisclosed place.
Meanwhile Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails appealed to their government in a message they sent to Egypt’s head of intelligence Omar Suleiman to swiftly work for their immediate release from captivity.
They also affirmed that Israel’s “stubbornness” was the stumbling block before achieving a swap deal with Palestinian fighters capturing IOF serviceman Gilad Shalit.
Head of the Nazareth-based Friends of Prisoner society Kudri Abu Wasel conveyed the appeal of the Egyptian detainees after visiting them in jail.
According to the message there are 10 Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails the bulk of them have been in jails for almost 12 years.
In Nablus city women societies are planning to launch a massive march in support of Palestinian women captives in Israeli jails as part of the activities the Palestinian people are holding in commemoration of the Palestinian prisoner’s day.
The Islamic Palestinian women league is spearheading preparation and organization of the march as the spokeswoman of the league affirmed that the march aims at highlighting agonies of Palestinian women captives in Israeli jails among other captives.
More than 120 Palestinian women many of them mothers are languishing in Israeli jails in very harsh incarceration conditions and many of them are denied family visits.
