A Palestinian young man was seriously wounded and others kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in abduction sweeps launched at daybreak Wednesday.
Reporting from Bethlehem a PIC news correspondent said violent clashes burst out in Duheisha camp to the south of Bethlehem shortly after the IOF stormed the city.
23-year-old Akram al-Atrash was seriously wounded by two Israeli bullets that hit his chest and shoulder. He was rushed to Beit Jala Hospital and was later transferred to a medical center in 1948 Occupied Palestine (Green Line) after his health had taken a serious turn for the worse.
The IOF attacked the Palestinian protesters with live rounds and teargas grenades.
Three Palestinian youngsters in their early 20s were kidnapped by the IOF from their family homes in the camp.
The Palestinian anti-occupation youth responded to the assault by hurling homemade explosive devices Molotov cocktails and stones at the occupation patrols.
The IOF soldiers also stormed the nearby Doha town and kidnapped a Palestinian youth—Baraa Abu Aliya—after they ravaged his family home.
Three Palestinian young men were further kidnapped by the IOF from their homes in Bethlehem’s western village of Nahalin.
Late on Tuesday evening the IOF soldiers broke into Bethlehem’s southern and western towns of Khader and Husan and cordoned off both villages with makeshift checkpoints before they kidnapped the Palestinian minor Mohamed Rashed al-Shaer from Husan village. He was later released following exhaustive questioning.
Meanwhile three Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Qalandiya camp south of Occupied Jerusalem.
The IOF also wreaked havoc on civilian homes in the camp.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian lawyer Luay Sa’abna from his home in Jenin’s southern town of Fahma in the northern West Bank.
The occupation soldiers seized the lawyer’s car moments after they broke into his home and cracked down on his family members.
