IOF arrests 13 Palestinians including children

30 أغسطس/آب 2012 الساعة . 12:44 م   بتوقيت القدس

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Thursday 13 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank cities and transferred them to interrogation centers under the pretext of being wanted by the Israeli intelligence for security concerns.

In Nablus, IOF arrested four citizens from Awarta east of the city. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli patrols stormed the town, raided several houses and damaged property, and arrested a number of citizens.

In Qalqilya, IOF also arrested four citizens from the town of Azzun east of the city, including two children, Mohammad Abdel Fattah Radwan, 14, and Qusai Saleh Mashaal, 16, where IOF stormed the town at two o'clock in the morning, and began a massive search campaign in dozens of homes.

Eyewitnesses told the PIC that IOF raided Beit Awwa, and arrested five citizens, aged between 15 and 17, after raiding their homes.

The sources added that IOF searched dozens of houses in the town, and set up checkpoints at the northern western and eastern entrances of Al-Khalil city.

In the same context, Jewish settlers attacked, in the Old City of Al-Khalil, the citizen Abdul Rahman Idris and brutally beat him in the late hours of the evening. The man was hospitalized with moderate injuries and bruises.