Tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens in Shuafat refugee camp and Anata town in east Jerusalem have been isolated and besieged by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) since Saturday’s shooting operation that killed a female soldier and injured two others at the Shuafat checkpoint.
Entrances and exits to the camp and town have been closed off as Israeli forces began search and arrest raids in the area as part of a large-scale campaign to find the Palestinians responsible for the Shuafat shooting operation.
The IOF reportedly fired volleys of tear gas and stun grenades on Sunday evening at stranded Palestinian vehicles and citizens at the Anata town junction after youths threw one Molotov cocktail at a group of soldiers.
According to Palestinian media outlets the IOF brutally assaulted a young man at the Anata junction as young men were distributing bottled water and meals among the stranded citizens in the area.
The IOF also assaulted and detained a young man at the Shuafat checkpoint while youths torched tires near the Israeli separation wall in ar-Ram town in northern Jerusalem.
A Palestinian girl was reportedly kidnaped by Israeli police officers outside the Aqsa Mosque after she left the holy site on Sunday afternoon.
In a separate incident the IOF kidnaped a Palestinian citizen from his home in Abu Shukhaydam town north of Ramallah.
Local sources said that Israeli troops raided a number of homes in Abu Shukhaydam and detonated the entrance of an apartment building before kidnaping a citizen identified as Adham Qandah.
The IOF also fired rubber bullets at journalists as they were trying to cover the Israeli raid on the town while local youths clashed with soldiers in the nearby village of al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya.
