On Saturday, Israeli soldiers shot two young Palestinian men and abducted eighteen in Qutanna town, northwest of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Media sources said protests occurred after several Israeli army jeeps invaded the town and added that the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs.
They added that the soldiers shot two young men with live rounds in their legs before Palestinian medics rushed them to a hospital.
The soldiers also invaded and violently searched dozens of homes before abducting eighteen Palestinians, identified as Husam Mohammad Taha, Mohammad Hasan Dabeek, Jihad Safiyya Houshiyya, Eyad Adnan Faqeeh, Mamoun Ali Faqeeh, Mo’men Ali Ismael Faqeeh, Mo’in Ali Ismael Faqeeh, Musallam Ismael Faqeeh, Ali Ismael Faqeeh, Zakariya Ahmad Al-Qassis, Yahia Ahmad Al-Qassis, Bilal Mustafa Shamasna, Ahmad Mustafa Shamasna, Ziad Bajes Shamasna, Mustafa Jaber Shamasna, Hamza Nasser Houshiyya, Mohammad Ali Jamil Houshiyya, and Mahmoud Mohammad Taha.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Nablus, in the northern West Bank, and searched the home of a political prisoner, Ghassan Thouqan, causing damage before confiscating his car.
The soldiers also invaded the Old City of Nablus and broke into homes to use their rooftops as monitoring towers and firing posts after searching and ransacking the properties.
