The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Tuesday, twenty-one Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including eleven from East Jerusalem’s Shu’fat refugee camp.
The soldiers invaded civilian homes and detained three Palestinians from the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
More Palestinian civilians were detained from their homes in the northern West Bank governorates of Jenin, Nablus, and Qalqilia.
In the southern West Bank, the army detained a Palestinian teenager, after storming his family home in the village of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem city.
In the occupied city of East Jerusalem, soldiers detained eleven young men from their homes in the Shu’fat refugee camp.
In many towns, local Palestinians resisted the early morning invasions, Israeli forces fired tear gas at the protestors, causing several people to suffer from inhalation injuries, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The PPS said large groups of soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in addition to Tubas city, which led to confrontations between the occupation army and Palestinian civilians.
Fourteen civilians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protestors.