Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier on Tuesday, at least, twenty Palestinians, including two women, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the dozens of soldiers invaded the northern West Bank district of Jenin, stormed and ransacked homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians, including one woman.
The kidnapped have been identified as Amjad Taiseer Hamarsha, Fadel Mahmoud Turkman and Mohammad Bassam Hamarsha, all are 18-19 years old, in addition to Tareq Bilalou and a woman, identified as Roweida Abu Mweis, 42.
The soldiers also kidnapped Hammoudi Obeid, 25, from the Jenin refugee camp, after stopping him at a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
In the southern West Bank district of Hebron, the soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians, identified as Omar Hazem Bader, Jihad Raed Faisal, 18, Mohammad Ramadan Abu Ramouz and Faisal Mohammad Badawi, 63.
Also in Hebron, undercover Israeli soldiers, driving a civilian car with Israeli license plates, infiltrated into Ras al-Joura area, near the city’s northern entrance, stopped a Palestinian car and forced all passengers out, before kidnapping one Palestinian and confiscating the car.
The soldiers interrogated the Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, and drove away heading towards bypass road #35.
The soldiers also invaded and searched many homes in Abu Dis town, near occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Amir Khaled Jaffal, Ahmad Radi Erekat and his brother Mahmoud.
In addition, the soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian woman, trying to cross the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem; the army claims she “carried a knife.”
In Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers kidnapped two brothers identified as Ramzi, 31, and Yousef Sweidan, 31.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, and kidnapped ‘Awni Ahmad Taqatqa, 13, and Mahmoud Abdullah Taqatqa, 18.
The soldiers also invaded Iraq-Burin town, in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and kidnapped a Palestinian, identified as Jasser Faleh Qadous.
In Ramallah, the soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman, identified as Manal Tamimi, 40, from her home in Nabi Saleh town.