Israeli soldiers abducted eighteen citizens at dawn, Monday, after assaulting many of them following an invasion into the city of Salfit in the occupied West Bank’s central part.

Many Israeli army forces invaded several neighborhoods in the city, stormed and ransacked several homes, causing damage to some of their contents, before assaulting and abducting eighteen citizens.

Seventeen of the abductees were identified as Osama Abdul-Hadi Dawahqa (38 years old), Dia’ Mohammad Zohd (47 years old), Mustafa Mohammad Zohd (37 years old), Abdul-Rahim Taysir Abu Jazma (38 years old), Abdul-Rahman Taysir Abu Jazma (35 years old), Sami Taha (47 years old), Abdul-Rahim Nasser Shtayyeh (26 years old), Mohammad Rasem Fatouni (26 years old), Yasar Shtayyeh (64 years old), Mousa Yasser Al-Damas (28 years old), Ma’zouz Ismail Taqtaq (52 years old), Ramez Riyad Shahada Marayta (20 years old), Bilal Rajab Al-Tari (28 years old), Mohammad Aziz Ibrahim Fattash (30 years old), Nidal Ezzedine Zubeidiyya (30 years old), Homam Aziz Abdul-Qader Fattash (24 years old), and Abdul-Rahman Aziz Abdul-Qader Fattash (20 years old).

The sources added that the forces seized approximately 35,000 shekels from the citizen Mousa Al-Damas.

In related news, the army also abducted three Palestinians in Nablus and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

The soldiers also abducted five Palestinians from their homes in Yatta, south of Hebron, and Beit Ummar, north of the city, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, and assaulted several members of one of the abductees’ family.