Among them a journalist and freed prisoners: The occupation arrests 19 Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem
Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale campaign of incursions and raids in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday dawn and morning, resulting in the arrest of at least 19 Palestinians, including a journalist and freed prisoners, and the storming and searching of homes.
Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale campaign of incursions and raids in various areas of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday dawn and morning, resulting in the arrest of at least 19 Palestinians, including a journalist and freed prisoners. The raids included storming and searching homes, tampering with their contents, subjecting a number of citizens to field interrogation, and imposing restrictions on the movement of residents. In Qalqilya governorate, occupation forces arrested 12 citizens, most of them freed prisoners, during the incursion into the city. They also stormed the village of Hajja east of the governorate, raided homes in its eastern neighborhood, and turned the home of the family of Rabi' Yasser Rabi' into a military barracks after forcing his family to evacuate it. In Tulkarm, occupation forces re-arrested journalist and freed prisoner Hamza al-Safi and his brothers Mu'min and Mustafa, after raiding their homes. They also arrested citizen Muhammad Salem al-Qass, a major in the Palestinian General Intelligence Service. In Hebron governorate, occupation forces arrested two young men, A'id Ali al-Hamouz and Omar al-Sarahnah, during the incursion into al-Fawwar refugee camp. The forces arrested four citizens from the town of al-Shuyukh north of Hebron while they were picking olives. Citizen Issa Awad was injured in the face as a result of an attack by settlers on him in Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta.