The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Monday stormed West Bank provinces and kidnapped Palestinian citizens including two MPs and a senior Hamas leader.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF stormed the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil and rummaged into the home of prisoner Tareq Id’is before they seized his father’s car.
Another Israeli military patrol stormed Bethlehem’s eastern town of Zaatara and kidnapped the Palestinian MP Khaled Tafesh (Hamas) from his home.
Another MP—Anwar Azaboun (Hamas)—along with the senior Hamas leader Hassan al-Wardian and the lecturer at the Quds Open University Ghassan Hirmas were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Bethlehem.
Hamas MPs Hassan Youssef Ahmed Mubarak Mohamed Jamal al-Natsha and Azzam Salahab are currently serving administrative sentences in Israeli jails with neither charge nor trial. Other MPs including Marwan al-Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat have also been held in Israeli lock-ups.
The IOF further ravaged the home of the Palestinian citizen Mootaz al-Ja’bah and summoned him to questioning in Etzion camp.
At the same time the occupation army wreaked havoc on civilian homes near Gharnata (Granada) School.
Overnight Sunday two Palestinian protesters choked on teargas after IOF soldiers broke into al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar and attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed waves of teargas grenades.
The Palestinian protesters reacted by hurling stones at a bus carrying Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts across the occupied Palestinian territories.
