On Friday, Israeli forces abducted five Palestinian citizens, including a former prisoner in the northern West Bank governorates of Jenin and Nablus. The army injured citizens in Beita town, south of Nablus, and near Al-Khader, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

On Friday night, occupation forces invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, from the northwest.

Media sources reported that military units were stationed in the “Bab Al-Zaqqaq” area, Jerusalem-Hebron Street, the Al-Radi Junction, and the Russian roundabout.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces stormed the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, and deployed infantry units in the Jibril neighborhood, and began searching an area near a citizen’s home.

On Friday evening, the army invaded and roamed through the villages of Jit and Immatin, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the West Bank.

At the same time, occupation forces stormed the town of Beita, south of Nablus, and injured a number of Palestinian civilians.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews treated several Palestinians and transported one to the hospital, after they sustained inhalation injuries as a result of tear gas fired by the army.

Furthermore, Israeli forces stormed Solomon’s Pools in Al-Khader town, southeast of Bethlehem, on Friday evening, injuring a number of citizens and obstructing their movement.

Sources said that soldiers fired tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at Palestinian families who were having a picnic, sparking protests and resulting in a number of them suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation.

In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted the former prisoner Faraj Al-Sanouri, after special forces besieged a house near Zababdeh, south of Jenin.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that occupation forces abducted, at dawn Friday, the young man Wael Mazen Samar, after storming his home in the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin.

Soldiers invaded the Arab American University dormitories near Zababdeh, and abducted the young man Ali Lotfi Turkman who is a resident of the Jenin refugee camp.

Occupation forces abducted Ayman Al-Khatib, a resident of Israel, after undercover agents infiltrated Nablus city and stormed a hotel, followed by military reinforcements.


[ Army in Qusra town, Nablus – Quds Press ]