Ramallah, Hebron (UNA/WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces arrested 22 Palestinian citizens from the Ramallah and Al-Bireh and Hebron governorates in the West Bank at dawn on Monday.
Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation forces arrested the citizens after raiding their homes and vandalizing their contents. During the raid on the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, the citizens were arrested: Baha Awad, Jamil Ali Abdul Karim, and his son Suhaib.
In the town of Birzeit in the north, the occupation forces arrested the freed prisoner Salama Muhammad Qatawi and his brothers Iyas, Uday, and Rias and his son Muhammad, and from the village of Abu Qash: Ahmad Jamal Ahmad al-Masri, and the child Eid Naim Qad (16 years old), and from the town of Beitunia in the west, Abdul Karim Muhammad Hamid Amoush.
In the same context, occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, with infantry units, and the town of Ni'lin to the west, without any arrests being reported.
In Hebron, Israeli occupation forces arrested 11 citizens from the governorate after raiding and searching their homes.
Local sources reported to WAFA that the occupation forces arrested: Muhammad Murshid Salhab, Imam Ghaleb Rifaiah, Abdullah Mashhour Al-Rajabi, and Muhammad Mahmoud Niroukh from the city of Hebron, Fayez Fawaz Al-Khudour, Ahmad Ishaq Al-Khudour, and Muhammad Munir Al-Hajouj from the town of Bani Naim east of the governorate, and the brothers Rashad and Ihab Ahmad Khamayseh from the town of Taffuh west of Hebron, and Adham Bassam Shalash and Muhammad Fadi Rabhi Shalash from the town of Beit Awa southwest of Hebron.
The same sources added that the occupation forces severely beat a number of detainees during raids on their homes and arrests.
The occupation forces also set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron, its towns, villages and camps, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement blocks and earthen barriers.
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