Israeli occupation forces today arrested a number of citizens during incursions and raids in the Qalqilya and Jenin governorates, among them former prisoners, amid a tightening of military measures and the setting up of barriers on roads and at the entrances to towns and villages in the Ramallah governorate.
Local sources said the occupation forces arrested six citizens from Qalqilya governorate, including three former prisoners, while arresting two farmers in the town of Ya'bad, southwest of Jenin, and confiscating a tractor in their possession.
The occupation forces also arrested three citizens during raids on the towns of Silat al-Harithiya and Deir Abu Da'if in Jenin governorate.
In Ramallah governorate, the occupation forces set up a military barrier on the road between the towns of Yabrud and Silwad, east of the city, another barrier at the al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya junction, and a barrier at the entrance to the village of Aboud, west of Ramallah, tightening restrictions on residents' movement.
In Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces left widespread destruction in the home of citizen Samer Rajeh Rafiq Hajj Mohammed during a dawn raid today in the al-Bayader area of the town of Beit Dajan.
Those identified among the detainees are: Laith Adnan Shawahneh of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; Zaher al-Saifi of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; former prisoner Ali Shawahneh of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; former prisoner Adham Shawahneh of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; former prisoner Major General Jamal Shawahneh of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; Bilal Zaher Shawahneh of the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya; Mohammed Ahmed Deeb Shawahneh of the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin; Sheikh Salah Zyoud of the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin; and Firas Allayat of the town of Deir Abu Da'if in Jenin.
