The Israeli occupation police kidnaped on Sunday evening three Palestinian citizens in the Old City of Jerusalem while hordes of extremist Jewish settlers carried out attacks in the West Bank.
According to local sources police officers kidnaped two citizens from Petra Hotel in the Old City of Jerusalem after a group of settlers stormed it in the afternoon and assaulted its employees and residents under police protection.
A large number of Israeli forces tried to forcibly evacuate the hotel from all those who were inside it while the owners of the right to run the place (the family of Qarash) refused to leave fearing settlers would storm it again.
Meanwhile another young citizen was kidnaped by police officers during his presence in Bab as-Sahira area in the Old City.
In a separate incident a horde of extremist settlers attacked in the evening Palestinian vehicles traveling on roads leading to Nablus City
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said dozens of settlers spread through roads and intersections in different areas of Nablus especially near al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town the roads connecting Nablus with Qalqilya and Jenin and near Beit Furik checkpoint and the junction of at-Tuneib.
He added that several cars sustained damage in the settler attacks.
Violent clashes also broke out between local youths and Israeli soldiers in the northwest of Nablus after settlers rallied near the main entrance to Burqa village and hurled rocks at passing cars.
Local sources said that several cars sustained damage in the settler attack near Burqa but local youths confronted them and managed to fend them off.
Earlier two settlers from the illegal settlement of Shavei Shomron were reportedly injured when local residents repelled a settler attack on Burqa town.
The Burqa villagers have been under siege and attack by soldiers and settlers since mid-September last year.
In Ramallah the Israeli occupation forces stormed a car repair garage at the main entrance to Sinjil town and smashed windows of several vehicles.
