NABLUS (PIC)– The IOF troops stormed the West Bank city of Nablus anew at dawn Thursday and arrested 13 Palestinians citizens alleging they were Hamas’ supporters in the city.
Palestinian security sources affirmed the IOF raid adding that large numbers of Israeli occupation soldiers backed by military vehicles were involved in the offensive.
Homes of the arrested Palestinians were ransacked and suffered damage as a result of the IOF troops’ pillage in them. The captives were 20-37 years old.
A Palestinian youth and a lady were also kidnapped at the hands of the IOF troops manning the Hawwara checkpoint south of the city.
The lady 25 was identified as Faten studying Journalism at the city’s Najah University. She was reportedly arrested after a quarrel with an IOF lady soldier at the barrier.
Three more Palestinian youths were rounded up at Bethlehem city south of Nablus in a similar IOF troops’ incursion.
On Wednesday the IOF troops apprehended 13 Palestinian high school students returning to their homes from school in the Aroob refugee camp north of Al-Khalil city. All the arrested students were led to an unidentified location.
Deputy-head of the engineers’ syndicate in the city Yahya Ersheed was also kidnapped at his house in the Al-Rama suburb north of Al-Khalil city before daybreak Wednesday.
The syndicate condemned the arrest of Ersheed and urged concerned parties to help release him immediately explaining that Ersheed’s work was purely service work.
Also on Wednesday a third son of detained Hamas prominent political leader Sheikh Jamal Abu Al-Haija was also arrested at an IOF temporary barrier near Jenin city.
Local eyewitnesses in the area revealed to the PIC correspondent in the city that an Israeli military force installed the temporary checkpoint and started scrutinizing IDs of Palestinian commuters before arresting the 18 year old Emad Jamal Abu Al-Haija and leading him to unknown place.
The elder Abu Al-Haija 50 was sentenced by an Israeli court to 14 life-imprisonment terms and retained in solitary confinement for three years now. His two other sons Abdul Salam the eldest and Asem the second were languishing in the Negev prison.
Meanwhile spokesman of the IOF troops acknowledged that an IOF team came under intensive Palestinian resistance fire in Jenin city adding that the attack inflicted damage on a military vehicle but he didn’t reveal casualties among the soldiers.
