11 Palestinians injured, many others kidnaped in West Bank
At least 11 Palestinian citizens suffered injuries and 24 others were kidnaped last night and later on Sunday morning when zionist occupation forces (IOF) launched a large-scale campaign in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, three young men suffered injuries during a ZOF raid in Jenin. One of them suffered from inhaling tear gas, another from a shrapnel wound in his upper extremities, and the third from a bullet injury in his abdomen.
Eight other young men also suffered different injuries following violent ZOF raids in Tulkarem and Jericho.
The ZOF also kidnaped four young men after they stormed in the morning the eastern neighborhood of Jenin City.
Local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that scores of troops and plain-clothes soldiers aboard over 30 military vehicles stormed the neighborhood, raided several homes, and kidnaped four young men.
Earlier, a large number of zionist troops carried out raids in Ya’bad town, south of Jenin, and kidnaped at least nine young men from their homes.
Eyewitnesses said that several soldiers on foot and others aboard vehicles entered the town through different entrances, while other military reinforcements were dispatched to the nearby Dotan checkpoint.
During the ZOF campaign in Ya’bad, resistance fighters opened fire at the soldiers and dozens of local youths hurled stones and bottles at them, amid sounds of sporadic heavy gunfire. Four young men were reportedly injured during the events.
The ZOF also stormed areas in northern Tulkarem, northern Nablus and Balata refugee camp and kidnaped three young men.
In Jericho, two young men were kidnaped and four others were injured by live ammunition following a ZOF campaign in Aqabat Jabr refugee camp.
Six citizens were also taken prisoners during ZOF campaigns in Dura al-Qari'a town (east of Ramallah), Marah Rabah village (south of Bethlehem), and Jerusalem City.
Local sources in Tulkarem reported that four citizens were injured in a series of israeli attacks in different areas of the city, without providing further details.
Earlier at dawn, three Palestinian workmen were injured after the ZOF chased them near the separation fence in Qalqilya, north of the West Bank.
Local sources said that plain-clothes soldiers, which were already deployed in the area, chased a number of workers as they were trying to cross into the 1948 occupied Palestine through holes in the fence and assaulted three of them.
On Saturday evening, several citizens suffered from their exposure to tear gas during clashes with the ZOF in Husan village, west of Bethlehem.
The ZOF reportedly detained a young man with special needs during the skirmishes in the village. (ILKHA)