Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, ten Palestinians in the West Bank governorates of Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron, after the army stormed and violently searched many homes.

Media sources in Nablus, in northern West Bank, said several army jeeps invaded the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of the city, and abducted Ahmad Ghassan Daraghma, 24, and Jamil Ya’coub ‘Oweiss, 19.

The soldiers also invaded Bethlehem city, searched homes in the al-Karkafa neighborhood, and abducted Odai Makhlouf Zawahra, 21, Hamada Fayez Shehab, 20, Abdul-Majid Zeidan Salhab, 18, Mohammad Adel Zboun and his brother Mahmoud.

Another Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Naim Taqatqa, 24, was abducted from his home in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before storming homes, and abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Karim Ibrahim Abu Mariya, 19, in addition to Mahdi Mohammad Abu Mariya.