On Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted three young Palestinian men, including a former political prisoner, in Bethlehem, south of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the al-Obeydiyya town, east of Bethlehem before the soldiers searched homes and abducted Rashed Hani Rabay’a, 22.

The soldiers also invaded the al-Azza refugee camp north of Bethlehem and abducted Rakan Akram Najjar, 20, from his home.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, Abdullah Ahmad Mousa, 19, from the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, after stopping him near Husan village, west of the city.

Also, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian while a paramilitary colonizer attacked farmers in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

In addition, the soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men in the Ramallah governorate in the central part of the occupied West Bank.

Earlier Thursday, the soldiers killed a young man, Yazan Naim Affana, 24, in the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city near Ramallah, and Samer Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, from the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus, after shooting him with a live round in the neck while sitting in his car in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.