Beginning in the predawn hours of Friday, occupation forces carried out an arrest campaign targeting at least forty Palestinians, including former prisoners and Gaza workers, in various regions of the occupied West Bank.
JENIN
Soldiers invaded Kafr Ra’i town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, stormed and searched a number of homes, and abducted three brothers, in addition to abducting one young man from the town of Arraba, southwest of the city.
Palestine TV reported that a large army force invaded the village of Jaba’, southwest of the city.
[Video from Palestine TV]
TULKAREM
Occupation forces invaded the city of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank, broke into a number of homes, abducted six Palestinian young, amid heavy gunfire. Sharpshooters were deployed on rooftops, shooting and injuring a Palestinian young man in the shoulder with a live round.
QALQILIA
In the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian former prisoner who is a resident of Tulkarem, while he was passing through a flying military roadblock east of Qalqilia.
At the weekly anti-settlement procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, soldiers opened fire at non-violent demonstrators with concussion grenades and tear gas canisters. There were no reports of any injuries.
NABLUS
Israeli forces invaded a number of towns and villages in the northern West Bank Nablus governorate, including Qabalan, Qaryut, Tal, and Deir Sharaf, searching many homes, in addition to a medical center and commercial shops. Soldiers erected a flying military roadblock and fired tear gas canisters at citizens, and seized surveillance recordings. In Tal village, local Palestinians protested the incursion, while the army fired live rounds and tear gas canisters, and confiscated a privately-owned motorcycle.
In the village of Osarin, southeast of the city, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man in the thigh with a live round when they opened fire at local youths who protested the military presence.
JERICHO
Israeli forces invaded the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, southwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, deployed soldiers throughout the camp and broke into a number of Palestinian citizens’ homes, abducting an 18-year-old after detonating the door to his family home.
RAMALLAH
North of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained two WAFA journalists at a military roadblock, detained and handcuffed them, checked their identification and cell phones, and threatened their colleague to leave at gunpoint. The two journalists were subsequently released.
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM
North of occupied Jerusalem, illegal Israeli colonizers opened fire at Palestinian citizens’ homes in the Shu’fat refugee camp, shooting and injuring one young man. The army stormed the camp and protests ensued, which soldiers responded to by firing concussion grenades and tear gas canisters at homes and closing the military roadblock at the entrance to the camp.
Soldiers stormed the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and invaded a number of citizens’ homes.
In the Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces blocked Palestinians from reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City. Soldiers fired rubber-coated steel rounds and tear gas, in addition to chasing and assaulting many of them. Meanwhile, a Palestinian photojournalist was abducted from the neighborhood.
Palestine TV published a video of a number of Israeli forces assaulting a Palestinian man in Silwan town, south of Al-Aqsa mosque.
[Video from Palestine TV]
BETHLEHEM
Large numbers of Israeli forces attacked Palestinian citizens while they were heading to a mosque in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Soldiers fired tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at citizens causing many to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
[Video from Palestine TV]
HEBRON
In the southern occupied West Bank, occupation forces invaded the village of Kharsa, southwest of Hebron, and opened fire with live ammunition, rubber-coated steel rounds, and tear gas canisters, shooting a Palestinian young man in the foot with a steel round.
Israeli soldiers positioned at the entrance to the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, southwest of Hebron opened fire with live rounds and tear gas canisters at local Palestinian youths who protested the military presence, shooting one young man in the hand and caused dozens of others to sustain inhalation injuries.
The army abducted several Palestinian citizens in the Hebron governorate, including 14 from Sa’ir town, northeast of the city, 9 from the city of Hebron, including 2 workers from Gaza. In the town of Idhna, west of the city, soldiers abducted one young man, and another 2 from Al-Fawwar refugee camp. Soldiers stormed and ransacked many citizens’ homes, and assaulted a number of people.
