On Tuesday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a former political prisoner whom the army also assaulted, in Bethlehem and Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the army invaded the Al-Manshiyya village, south of Bethlehem, before storming and ransacking homes.
They added that the soldiers abducted Mohammad Taha Abu Hussein and Ahmad Thiab Abu Hussein, from their homes, and took them to the nearby Etzion military base and security center.
In Salfit, in the central West Bank, the soldiers invaded the home of former political prisoner, Firas Qadri, and assaulted him while ransacking his home, before abducting him.
Early on Tuesday dawn, several Israeli military vehicles invaded Tulkarem city, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, hours after assassinating five Palestinians.
Medical sources identified the five slain citizens as the child, Adnan Ayser Jaber, 15, the child, Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Alian, 16, Mohannad Kamal Mohammed Qaraawi, 20, Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril, 20, from Qalqilia, and Mohammad Ali Mustafa Youssef, 49.
In related news, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers killed Khalil Salem Khalil Ziyada, 40, and moderately injured three in Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Also Monday, Israeli forces killed Eyad Ayed Abed Najjar, 46, in the village of Janba, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
On Monday afternoon and at night, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians across the destroyed coastal enclave.
