Ramallah - Saba:
Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale campaign of raids and arrests across the West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, focusing on the towns of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, and Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.
Palestinian media reported that Israeli occupation forces arrested 16 Palestinian citizens during their raid on the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, including freed prisoner Hanan Barghouti and Asef Barghouti.
The media reported that the Israeli occupation forces arrested a number of residents of Kobar during the raid, which lasted for hours. They also detained dozens of young men, interrogating them after converting the home of freed prisoner Nael Barghouti into a field investigation center.
In Silwad, Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinian citizens after raiding their homes and ransacking their contents.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces raided the homes of Palestinian citizens in the town of Issawiya, east of occupied Quds, and arrested a young man from Quds.
Israeli forces raided the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and raided the home of former prisoner Bashar Fares Nasasra. They arrested his son, Laith (24 years old), and arrested an 18-year-old Palestinian man after raiding and searching his family's home and ransacking its contents.
Israeli forces tightened their military measures at checkpoints around Nablus and searched vehicles.
Israeli forces raided the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, and arrested former prisoner Saleh Mahmoud Shakarneh. They also arrested a number of children and young men during a raid on the town of Al-Khader, south of the city.
Israeli forces were stationed in several areas, most notably: the Old City, Al-Balou', the Great Mosque, Al-Bawaba, Harat Abu Sura, and Jabal Abu Ramdan. They raided and searched homes and arrested a number of children and young men after interrogating them in the field.
Israeli forces closed the entrance to the village of Marah Rabah and set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Manshiyya, south of Bethlehem.
Local Palestinian sources reported that Israeli forces closed the entrance to the village of Marah Rabah, which connects it to some neighboring villages in the center of Bethlehem.
The same sources added that the same forces had set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to Manshiyya since the morning hours, after it had been completely closed the previous evening.
In addition, Israeli forces stormed the town of Bal'a, east of Tulkarm, and deployed a number of military vehicles, accompanied by two Eitan armored vehicles, from the direction of the Anab military checkpoint, east of the town of Anabta. They positioned themselves in the areas of Ad-Dawa, Al-Haf, and Batata, and deployed infantry units in the surrounding wooded areas.
In the same context, Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinian citizens and subjected them to field investigations during their raid on the town of Ad-Dhahiriya, south of Hebron.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Adh Dhahiriya, south of Hebron, and deployed throughout the town's neighborhoods and around Palestinian homes. They raided a large number of them and detained dozens of citizens in a family's diwan, after smashing its gate and converting it into a field investigation center.
These forces also stormed the Adh Dhahiriya Municipality's emergency center, assaulting medical staff and patients inside, and destroying some of its contents.
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