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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 30th, 2015.

One Palestinian youth injured by Israeli troops and many, others kidnaped during invasions targeting West Bank communities. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.

One Palestinian injured, five kidnapped when Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Tal and Qasra villages, and Aseera ash-Shemaliyya town, in the northern West Bank district of Nablus.

Media sources in Tal village, southwest of Nablus, said Amir Khader Hamad, 19 years of age, was shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet in his left leg. The sources added that clashes that took place between the invading soldiers, and local youths.

Also on Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian children in Yatta town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, handed nine families notices to stop the construction of their homes.

Moreover, Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning, a young Palestinian man in occupied East Jerusalem, less than 12 hours following his release, after he spent six and a half months in an Israeli prison for “incitement on Facebook.” Soldiers also kidnapped his father.

On late Monday night, Hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded, overnight, 10 villages in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, searched dozens of homes and property, and confiscated surveillance tapes, looking for the shooters who seriously wounded one Israeli settler, and moderately injured three others.

Israeli medical sources have reported that four settlers have been injured, one seriously, late on Monday, in a shooting attack carried out at the Shvut Rachel Junction, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

In other news Israeli soldiers invaded Jebna village in Masafer Yatta area in Hebron, and handed nine families military orders to stop the construction of their homes, in addition to handing three orders for demolishing tens and sheds the families currently inhabit.

And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and Ghassan Bannoura.