A mass abduction sweep was carried out by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at predawn Wednesday sparking clashes with Palestinian protesters.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of eight Palestinians from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem on claims of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Two Palestinians—Khalil Dandan and Maher Afana—were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Jerusalem’s town of Abu Dis while Tawfiq Afana was kidnapped from al-Maliha village.
At the same time 17-year-olds Kusay Abu Hashem and Muayed Abu Maria along with Mustafa Abidou were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil activist Mohamed Awad told the PIC.
Ahmed Abu Hashem aged 50 was also summoned to questioning by the occupation soldiers who wreaked havoc on his family home.
Meanwhile clashes flared up in Nablus shortly after seven Israeli military patrols stormed the city at the crack of dawn and scoured residential neighborhoods most notably Rafidia to the west.
Another round of violent clashes rocked Qalqilya after the IOF stormed the city and carried out arbitrary combing operations.
The Israeli army attacked the Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed spates of teargas canisters resulting in several suffocation cases.
