Ramallah - Saba:
At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli forces launched a campaign of raids and arrests targeting Palestinian citizens across the West Bank, arresting 17 citizens.
The Palestinian SAFA News Agency reported that Israeli forces arrested 12 citizens from the Hebron Governorate today after assaulting them while raiding their homes, searching them, and vandalizing their contents after raiding the city of Hebron.
In a related development, Israeli forces raided the neighborhoods of Daher, Safa, Beit Za'ata, Asida, and the town center. They stormed several citizens' homes and shops, searched them, and destroyed their exterior and interior doors and furniture. Local Palestinian sources reported that the forces seized sums of money from one house, three cell phones from another, and a vehicle belonging to a former prisoner.
The same sources explained that the forces arrested three former prisoners from Beit Ummar and took them to the Etzion camp, north of Hebron.
They prevented a number of citizens from reaching a mosque in the center of the town for the dawn prayer.
Several military checkpoints were also set up at the entrances to Hebron and its towns, villages, and refugee camps, and several main and secondary roads were closed with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds.
In the city of Nablus, Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinian brothers from the Balata refugee camp, east of the city.
Local Palestinian sources reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, raided and searched several homes, wreaked havoc, and arrested the two brothers.
Sources indicated that the enemy also raided the villages of Duma, Beit Dajan, Beita, and Kafr Qallil in the governorate, without any reported raids or arrests.
In the city of Ramallah, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian youth after raiding and searching his home in the town of Beitunia, west of the city.
In the same context, Israeli forces also raided the village of Deir Ibzi', west of Ramallah, without any arrests or raids on homes.
In the city of Bethlehem, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian citizens from the towns of Al-Ubeidiya and Al-Khader.
The Israeli enemy also raided the towns of Husan, Za'tara, Dar Salah, and Nahalin, raiding several homes without making any arrests.
In the city of Salfit, Israeli forces raided the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, at dawn today. They deployed in several neighborhoods, raiding and searching a large number of homes.
Local Palestinian sources reported that these forces conducted field investigations with a number of Palestinian citizens after detaining them for hours, conducting thorough searches of homes, and vandalizing the contents of some of them.