Israeli forces abducted, between Monday night and Tuesday evening, many Palestinian civilians in several military incursion in various areas of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported.
In the northern part of the West Bank, Israeli troops stormed Ya’bad town, west of Jenin, on Monday night, sparking protests among local Palestinian young men, and at least three unidentified young men were abducted by the army.
On Tuesday, soldiers abducted six unidentified Palestinian men from inside a café in Ya’bad town, while another, identified as Ahmed Abu Al-Rub, was abducted from a flying military roadblock near Kufeirat village, southwest of the city.
According to Muntasir Samour, the head of the Jenin chapter of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Israeli special forces, on Tuesday evening, stopped the vehicle of the former prisoner, Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Salah, near the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin, before abducting him.
It was reported that the army opened fire with live rounds at Palestinian workers, and detained three women for several hours, near the Apartheid wall, near Rummanah village, northwest of Jenin, causing a minor injury to one worker.
It was added that soldiers stormed towns ands villages northwest, west and southwest of the city, erected flying military roadblocks, stopped vehicles and checked citizens’ identities.
Soldiers abducted, on Tuesday, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman Rayan, 21, as he attempted to pass through a military roadblock southeast of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
At dawn Tuesday, Israeli troops invaded and searched the homes of Ibrahim Maatan and Ibrahim Nawabit, in Burqa town, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, and Baha Siyagha, from the town of Silwad, northeast of the city, before abducting them.
According to the “Handzala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners”, soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian activist and former prisoner, Moatasem Samar Brighith, 28, while he tried to pass through the “Container” military roadblock, east of occupied Jerusalem.
In the southern part of the West Bank, the army stormed and searched the home of Saif Abu Amiriya in the town of Za’tara, southeast of Bethlehem, before abducting him.
According to Muhammad Awad, a local activist, occupation forces invaded and search the homes of Mahdi Muhammad Hammad Abu Mariya, 18, Muhammad Diab Sabarneh, 20, and Ibrahim Issa Bahr, 21, in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, before abducting them.
Furthermore, soldiers invaded and searched, on Tuesday, the home of Muhammad Abdel Hai Mahmoud Daoud, 22, in the city of Hebron, before abducting him.
During a military incursion the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank, soldiers killed two Palestinians, including a child, and abducted, Mohammed Nasr Abu Al-Assal, 20.
Additionally, the Israeli Navy abducted two fishermen, Ra’fat “Mohammed ‘Ali” Yousef al-Sultan, 53, and his nephew, Mohammed Rafeeq “Mohammed ‘Ali” al-Sultan, 22, off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip, and confiscated their boat.