Israeli forces continued, on Wednesday night, its large-scale aggression against the citizens in the Tubas governorate, assaulting at least 16 Palestinians and detaining 70 others, amid the imposition of a curfew and continued home invasions.
Since midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday, the Tubas governorate has witnessed a heavy deployment of Israeli military forces in several areas, particularly the city of Tubas and the town of Tammun, south of the city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews provided first aid to 16 citizens who sustained injuries as a result of assault by occupation soldiers, including an 85-year-old man; five citizens were transported to the hospital.
According to Kamal Bani Odah, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Tubas, occupation forces continue to storm citizens’ homes in many areas in the Tubas governorate.
Odah reported that Israeli forces invaded and ransacked many citizens’ homes, and carried out a large-scale detention campaign affecting 70 citizens who were detained and subjected to field interrogation in the city of Tubas, the towns of Aqaba and Tammun, and the village of Tayasir.
He added that occupation forces abducted the former prisoner Mohammad Alaa Bani Odah from an ambulance, after he was assaulted by Israeli soldiers at the entrance of Tammun town.
Media sources reported that Apache helicopters were witnessed flying in the Tubas airspace, opening fire randomly, while bulldozers closed, with earth mounds, a number of main and secondary roads in Tubas, Aqaba, and Tammun.
The ARAB 48 news website quoted the occupation army who stated that the operation began with an airstrike “to isolate and encircle the area,” after “intelligence monitoring of attempts to establish an armed infrastructure.”
It quoted witnesses who reported that Israeli forces expelled several citizens from their homes, before converting a number of them into military barracks.
Earlier report | Israel Invades Tubas: Soldiers Beat Young Palestinian, Ransack Homes
