Three Palestinian citizens were injured and eight others were kidnaped last night and at dawn Tuesday by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the West Bank.
According to local sources a Palestinian young man was injured during overnight clashes between youths and Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance of Bireh City.
The Red Crescent said that one of its ambulance crews provided on-site medical assistance for a young man suffering from a bullet injury in his leg and evacuated him to a hospital in Ramallah City.
Two other young men were also wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank towns of Teqoa and Dura.
Local sources said that a large number of Israeli troops stormed Teqoa town at dawn ahead of a settler rally at its main entrance and clashed with local residents.
The sources added that one young man was seriously injured and detained by the IOF during the clashes in the town.
Several others also suffered from their exposure to tear gas during the events according to the same sources.
According to director of the Teqoa municipality Tayseer Abu Mifreh dozens of settlers aboard 10 buses stormed the western entrance of the town under military escort and embarked on performing rituals and chanting anti-Arab slogans.
In al-Khalil another young man identified as Abdul-Rahman al-Darawish was also injured in his leg and detained by the IOF during clashes in Dura town.
The Israeli occupation army claimed in a statement that the wounded young man from Dura had been among a group of youths who recently threw stones and Molotov cocktails at a military post near the town and torched tires of Israeli cars.
Meanwhile three Palestinians were kidnaped by the IOF from Nablus Beit Lid town in eastern Tulkarem and Tamun town in southern Tubas.
The IOF also stormed Qalandia refugee camp in northern Jerusalem kidnaped a citizen from his home and clashed with local youths.
Four others were kidnaped by the IOF from Ramallah al-Khalil and a military checkpoint in eastern Bethlehem.
The IOF also stormed at dawn Tuesday different areas of Jenin province including the city and its refugee camp and clashed with local youths.
Local sources reported that resistance fighters opened fire at the IOF after they stormed al-Jaberiyat neighborhood in Jenin City.
