The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a raid and arrest campaign on Sunday night and at dawn Monday in various areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Several Palestinians were arrested including a journalist.
In Nablus IOF arrested on Sunday night the journalist and released prisoner Bushra Jamal Al-Tawil at Tiar checkpoint on the Yitzhar road. Tawil was taken to the Hawara camp south of Nablus.
IOF released Tawil at the end of last July 2020 after spending 8 months in the occupation prisons.
Tawil was arrested for the first time in 2011 and she was sentenced to 16 months. She spent six months because she was released in the Wafa Al-Ahrar prisoner exchange agreement in December 2011. Then she was re-arrested again in July 2014 and she was sentenced to ten months in prison which is the continuation of her previous detention before the prisoner exchange agreement.
The third arrest was in November 2017 and the Israeli authorities ordered her administrative detention for eight months. The last arrest was on December 10 2019.
Tawil’s family suffered from the occupation’s targeting of them through successive arrests. Her parents were arrested several times in the past and her father spent a total of 14 years in the occupation’s prisons. Her mother was also arrested on 08/02/2010 and was released on 01/02/2011.
In another development IOF patrols stormed Jaffa street and the area surrounding Al-Ain refugee camp west of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli soldiers stormed a store and confiscated items from inside the store in the presence of the owner and he was detained.
In Qalqilya the IOF soldiers fired stun grenades and teargas canisters in the area near the separation wall in Jayyus northeast of Qalqilya.
In Tulkarem IOF arrested Imad Fahmi Ammar 38 years after raiding his house in Qaffin town north of Tulkarem and seized his personal phone and amount of money.
IOF broke into a library in the Al-Ashqar complex in the middle of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Square in Tulkarem and searched it. Confrontations erupted between the Palestinian youths and the IOF soldiers who fired tear gas canisters without any injuries reported.
The areas of Jalazun refugee camp and Dura al-Qara town north of Ramallah witnessed an incursion by IOF which coincided with the launch of a drone over the camp and the town.
In al-Khalil the IOF soldiers arrested the two brothers Musab and Salah Al-Zughayer after they raided their houses.
IOF arrested the ex-prisoner Muhammad Shaheen and Muayad Walid Amr from Dura southwest of al-Khalil after they raided and searched their homes.
Local sources stated that IOF arrested two Palestinians from Beit Ta’amer east of Bethlehem and seized a vehicle of one of them.
Three brothers were also arrested after IOF raided their relatives’ house in the village and searched it.
The sources pointed out that IOF arrested a young man after storming his relatives’ house in Aida camp north of Bethlehem.
In Jerusalem the Israeli occupation intelligence stormed the house of Silwan Club’s president Marwan Al-Ghoul and served him a summons for investigation on Tuesday in Room 4 in the Al-Maskobiya center west of the occupied city.