IOF soldiers round up five Palestinians

14 أغسطس/آب 2012 الساعة . 12:51 م   بتوقيت القدس

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up five Palestinian citizens over the past 24 hours in various West Bank areas, local sources said on Monday.

Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers arrested four young men at a roadblock installed to the south of Tulkarem on Monday night.

They said that IOF patrols searched vehicles passing along Kufriyat road and scrutinized IDs before taking away the four youths who were travelling together in one car.

In Nablus, IOF soldiers stormed the city at dawn Monday and arrested a 30-year-old man after searching his home.

Meanwhile, other IOF units closed on Monday morning the road connecting ten villages to the north west of occupied Jerusalem to Ramallah at security pretexts.

Witnesses said that the soldiers placed cement cubes on the road and deprived those villages, with a population of around 70,000, from directly connecting with Ramallah. They said that citizens were forced to use alternative roads that take a much longer time.