Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 12 Palestinians in various West Bank areas at dawn Wednesday and broke into a mosque in Al-Khalil, local sources said.
IOF sources said that the arrested were wanted for interrogation but would not disclose their identity, one of them, local sources said, was a prisoner liberated in the recent exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
Municipality council chief in Deir Estiye, Salift, said that the IOF troops took three of the inhabitants in the village including Jihad Tawfik Khaled, who was freed in the exchange deal.
Locals in Al-Khalil said that the soldiers detained three young men in Dura town and two in Al-Khalil city, adding that the soldiers violently broke into many homes in the province and damaged private property in the process.
IOF soldiers arrested a youth in Orta village, to the east of Nablus, after storming and ransacking his family home, local sources said, noting that the detainee Shadi Sharab had served 16 years in occupation jails.
The soldiers earlier on Tuesday night arrested a Palestinian teen in the Old city in Al-Khalil at the pretext that he had a knife in his possession and was planning to attack one of them
Also in Al-Khalil province, IOF soldiers surrounded the main mosque in Al-Rayhia village and asked the elderly people to get out of it, then handed summonses to a number of youths after storming it.
IOF soldiers questioned a number of citizens in Seelat Al-Harthiya village, west of Jenin, and stormed a number of shops.
Eyewitnesses said that an intelligence officer accompanied six army patrols in storming the shops, and field interrogated citizens at random.
They said that young men engaged the invading patrols after the soldiers provoked the citizens.
