A large number of Israeli troops stormed at dawn Saturday Awarta town south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank and embarked on collecting personal information from citizens.
Eyewitnesses said that soldiers aboard military vehicles entered several neighborhoods in the town and interviewed citizens in their houses and on streets about personal information.
According to one of the residents such campaign in the town has become a routine for the Israeli army over the past two months.
Meanwhile several soldiers were deployed at dawn in the eastern neighborhood of Huwara town south of Nablus to monitor and ambush young men accused of throwing stones at settlers’ cars traveling nearby according to eyewitnesses.