The Israeli occupation forces carried out a large-scale incursion into the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Monday morning, resulting in the arrest of 22 Palestinians, after they raided their homes, searched and raided their contents.
According to a statement issued by the Israeli army, 22 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in activities related to resistance against soldiers and settlers. The army statement claimed that during a search operation in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces found a pistol and ammunition. An Israeli military spokesman said an army force was hit by a pipe bomb near the Jalameh military checkpoint north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The arrests were carried out out by eight young men from the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem, and a Palestinian from the northern town of Asira north of the northern West Bank town of Nablus and another from Yabed town, south of Jenin. The Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian from Hebron (south) and 3 Palestinians from Beit Ummmar village north of the city. Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian youth from the town of Deir Ghassana, northwest of Ramallah (center of the occupied West Bank). The occupation forces subjected a number of Palestinians in Hebron, Salfit and Ramallah to a "field investigation" following the storming of their homes and searched them, and handed over other communications to the intelligence review in "Etzion" and "Ofer" and "Huara "He said.
