Agencies-Gaza post
26 Palestinians were detained including 60-year-old man by IOF in West Bank
Israeli forces on Thursday overnight arrested 26 Palestinians, including a 60-year-old man and two minors, in massive-scale raids in the West Bank, according to local sources.
Sources reported that Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian after storming and searching his family home in Silwad town, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The soldiers arrested another after tempering his family house in Ramallah city.
In Nablus, armed soldiers showed up at a home in Huwara town, south of Nablus, and re-arrested a former inmate.
The village has recently become a scene of clashes with Israeli settlers, who, under military protection, storm the town to hoist Israeli flags or takedown Palestine flags on electrical bars in the main street.
Elsewhere in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces jailed six others, including a 60-year-old man, after forcibly storming the homes of their families in Qalqiliya city.
In Jenin, the soldiers manning the intermittently staffed Ya‘bad checkpoint, also known as Mevo Dotan, stopped and detained three others, including former prisoners.
The heavily-armed soldiers forcibly entered a number of houses in Sa‘ir town, east of Hebron, woke up all the residents, turned the houses topsy-turvy, and detained nine others, including three fathers along with their minor children in the southern West Bank.
They launched a raid in Yatta town, south of Hebron, and imprisoned two others.
The sources asserted a similar raid in Bani Na‘im, east of the city, resulting in the arrest of three others, including two brothers.
On Wednesday evening, the soldiers arrest another from Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron after settlers, under military protection, attacked and chased herders in Ein al-Beida, one of the communities making up Masafer Yatta.
Israeli forces also arrested another, who serves as a Waqf guard and is a chronic patient, after beating him in the vicinity of the Damascus Gate.
