On Friday, Israeli forces abducted more than 24 citizens from Hebron city and Beit Ummar town, north of the city in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, and intensified their military measures and restrictions across the governorate.
Media activist Mohammad Awad stated that the soldiers invaded many neighborhoods, stormed and ransacked dozens of homes and abducted twenty-four Palestinians, including fathers and their sons.
The abductions were accompanied by extensive and violent searches of homes, causing property damage, as well as assaults against many residents, especially young men.
In addition, the soldiers intensified their measures at military roadblocks and continued to close the entrances to towns and camps in Hebron Governorate.
Media sources said the soldiers are still closing the entrances to Hebron city and the entrances to the towns of Ath-Thaheriyya, Doura, As-Samu’, Farsh Al-Hawa, Ras Al-Joura, Al-Fahs, Abda, Bani Ne’im, Karma, Ath-Thaheriya, and Al-Harayeq, as well as closing all roads leading to towns with Hebron city with iron gates.
Additionally, the soldiers installed many roadblocks at entrances of several villages and towns, search citizens’ vehicles, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
The army also intensified the strict military measures in Hebron’s Old City, and at the electronic gates leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque, where the Palestinians are subjected to abuse and humiliation by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
At the time of this report, twenty-two of the abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
- Wajih Sabri Abdul Razzaq Aadi, 53, Beit Ummar,
- Youssef Wajih Aadi, 17. (Wajih’s son), Beit Ummar,
- Mohammad Ali Mosleh Awad, 40, Beit Ummar,
- Wadi Mohmmad Mosleh, 16. (Mohammad’s son), Beit Ummar,
- Hassan Mohammad Hassan Moqbel, 25, Beit Ummar,
- Majd Zoheir Moqbel, 22, Beit Ummar,
- Mohammad Hussein Abu Mariya, 26, Beit Ummar,
- Abdullah Akram Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 20, Beit Ummar,
- Mohammad Youssef Ekhlayyil, 20, Beit Ummar,
- Sami Ahmad Abdul-Halim Bahar, 16, Beit Ummar,
- Ayman Hassan Ahmad Sabarna, 19, Beit Ummar,
- Ammar Younis Mousa Arar, 17, Beit Ummar,
- Eyad Omar Jibril Sleibi, 26, Beit Ummar,
- Mohammad Waheed Abu Mariya, 22, Beit Ummar,
- Qusai Mofeed Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 21, Beit Ummar,
- Majd Imad Khdeir Awad, 22, Beit Ummar,
- Yaseen Adel Ahmad Za’aqeeq, 19, Beit Ummar,
- Abdul-Fattah Mohammad At-Teet,17, Beit Ummar,
- Qusai Qasrawi, Hebron,
- Raed Al-Atrash, Hebron,
- Yazan Wazwaz, Hebron, and
- Jamail Al-Jamal, Hebron.
On Thursday night, the Israeli army assassinated eighteen Palestinians and injured more than twenty, including children and elders, in an airstrike on a popular café in Tulkarem refugee camp, in Tulkarem city, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
