Israeli forces carried out pre-dawn raids throughout the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as they have done every morning since the second intifada began in September 2000. In addition to abducting nine Palestinians, they also injured several people, terrorized neighborhoods and raided homes and businesses, causing damage.
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Jenin:
The Israeli occupation army continues its aggression against the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, for the third day in a row.
Local sources said that occupation aircraft are constantly flying over the town, firing heavy live ammunition in open areas and in the mountains.
The occupation army has continued to impose a curfew in the town since Tuesday evening, while the occupation army deployed in the town’s streets launches raids on citizens’ homes, forcing residents to leave, and converting some of them into military barracks.
The occupation forces closed the entrances to the town and some of its side streets, and forced shop owners to close.
The occupation forces detained a large number of citizens, took them to investigation centers set up in the town, interrogated them, and assaulted a number of them.
The Prisoners Club said that since Tuesday evening, the occupation forces have been launching a massive campaign of arrests and detentions in the town, without knowing the number of detainees so far due to the continued aggression.
An Israeli army helicopter opens machine gunfire indiscriminately over the town of Qabatiya, north of the occupied West Bank, amid an ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area:
In a pre-dawn raid Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces abducted a Palestinian citizen from the village of Anza, south of Jenin.
Local sources said that the occupation forces abducted the young man, Ibrahim Al-Amour, after raiding his house in the village before dawn today.
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Nablus:
A citizen suffered bruises today, Wednesday, after the Israeli occupation forces attacked him on Al-Quds Street in the city of Nablus.
Director of the Red Crescent Ambulance and Emergency Center in Nablus, Brigadier General Ahmed, said that ambulance crews transported a citizen (57 years old) to the hospital, after occupation soldiers beat him during a raid on his house on Al-Quds Street, south of Nablus.
The Israeli occupation forces abducted four citizens from the city of Nablus before dawn on Wednesday.
Security sources reported to Wafa that the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Ain camp, west of the city, and arrested citizen Salim Mahmoud Jibril, while they raided several homes in the Al-Makhfia and Al-Ittihad neighborhoods and abducted: Maan Al-Akkad, Saher Hamdan, and Hassan Ayed Bakr Mansour.
Israeli occupation forces abduct and blindfold Palestinian Saher Hamdan while storming the Makhfiya neighborhood in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank:
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Tulkarem:
The Israeli occupation forces strengthened their deployment in the center of Tulkarem overnight, as they continue their aggression against the city and its two camps for the 310th consecutive day.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that infantry teams and military vehicles roamed the vegetable market area, the vicinity of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Roundabout and Jamal Abdel Nasser Square, where they stopped vehicles, checked the identities of citizens, and subjected a number of them to field interrogation, without any arrests being reported.
This coincided with the sound of heavy gunfire from inside Tulkarm camp, in addition to the occupation forces firing light bombs from inside the camp, on which the occupation continues to impose a tight siege.
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Ramallah:
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Madiyah, west of Ramallah.
Security sources reported to Wafa that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the village and deployed military vehicles through its streets, without any arrests or clashes being reported.
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Bethlehem:
Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the Container checkpoint northwest of Bethlehem.
Security sources reported that the occupation forces closed the container military checkpoint on the Wadi al-Nar road – the only road that Palestinians are allowed to drive on that links the north, center and south of the West Bank, which led to a stifling traffic crisis.
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens, including an elderly man, from Bethlehem Governorate.
Security sources reported to Wafa that the Israeli occupation forces abducted Khader Elias Ballout (60 years old) from the city of Beit Jala to the west, Issa Muhammad Al-Harimi (26 years old) from the Abu Anjim area southeast of Bethlehem, and the freed prisoner Muhammad Ibrahim Abayat from the Wadi Abu Fariha area to the east, after raiding and searching their homes.
Israeli occupation forces detained three Palestinian women near the town of Zawiya in the central West Bank:
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Hebron:
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces abducted three citizens and detained dozens in the Hebron Governorate.
Security sources told Wafa that the occupation forces abducted Moataz Al-Jaaba from the city of Hebron, Fadi Musa Ghunaimat, and Qasim Ali Al-Qadi, from the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron, after storming the town, raiding citizens’ homes, detaining dozens of them, and investigating them in the field.
The occupation forces also stormed the towns of Dura and Yatta in the south, raided a number of homes, searched them, and tampered with their contents, without any arrests being reported.
Israeli occupation forces detained and blindfolded multiple Palestinian civilians while storming the town of Surif, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, forcing them into a sports arena:
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