Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched on Wednesday a large-scale campaign of arrest in the West Bank. 

In al-Khalil, IOF arrested nine young men from the towns of Dhahiriya and Bani Naim.

The IOF soldiers arrested three citizens from Nablus, one of them is 36 years old.

From Jenin, IOF arrested three Palestinians, two of them are 38 years old while the third one is 21 years old.

In Bethlehem, IOF arrested two boys, 16, from Tuqu’ town and two men, aged 37 and 31 years, from Al-Obaidiya town.

IOF arrested two young men from Ramallah and Al-Bireh provinces.

Security sources reported that IOF arrested a citizen from Birzeit town and another from Bil'in after raiding their homes.

Furthermore, Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Occupied Palestine, said that the Israeli police arrested 58 Palestinians from the 1948 occupied territories at dawn Wednesday.

The arrests were recorded as follows: 3 in Arraba, 5 in Abu Senan, 4 in Tamra, 1 in Baqa al-Gharbia, 2 in Deir Hanna, 5 in Ain al-Sahla, 2 in Kafr Yasif, 2 in Jadida, 1 in Acre, 1 in Nazareth, 1 in al-Helf, and 31 in the south.

The center pointed out that it contacted volunteer lawyers to be present at various police stations to consult the detainees before being interrogated. 

Meanwhile, IOF chased dozens of West Bank workers on their way to their workplaces in the 1948 occupied Palestine through the gates of the annexation and apartheid wall north of Tulkarem.

Local sources said that the IOF soldiers fired at the workers in the vicinity of the wall, west of the town of Attil, but no injuries were reported.

IOF arrested a number of workers west of the town of Zeita and took them to an unknown investigation center, according to the sources. 

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center