Eighteen Palestinian citizens, including a 14-year-old minor, were rounded up by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Sunday night following overnight invasions into al-Khalil.
Adnan Ismail Arzikat, Abdul Rahman Issa, Ezzedine Abu Snina, Jamil Abu Eisha, Maher Moussa al-Shyoukhi, and Muhammad Maher Badr, among many other Palestinian civilians, were all targeted by the operation.
The IOF turned Palestinians’ homes into military barracks following abrupt break-ins into Tafouh town, west of al-Khalil, and Knar neighborhood, east of Dura town.
A Palestinian young man was left wounded while another was abducted as the IOF cordoned off homes in al-Khalil.
A state of anxiety has overwhelmed the natives, including women and children, as the heavily-armed Israeli patrols blew up the entry gate of a Palestinian home in Deir Baha and ordered a native family to surrender over the loudspeakers, local sources reported.
Akram Qawasmi sustained shrapnel injuries as a spate of heavy and random gunshots was discharged by the Israeli soldiers. Akram, along with Nour Abdul Fatah al-Qawasmi, 21, were both taken into custody, the same sources added.
An unprecedented upsurge in overnight Israeli break-ins has been documented in al-Khalil, where the Israeli soldiers raked through Palestinian homes, blocked the main streets with sand barriers, and shut all of the entry gates into the city with cement cubes.
Unjustified acts of violence have also been going on round-the-clock in al-Khalil.
The IOF forays culminated in the heavy beating of Palestinian 14-year-old child Madeleine Imad Abu Shamsiya as a horde of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian native families in al-Khalil.
Both Madeleine and her father were abducted by the Israeli soldiers and dragged to an interrogation center in the Kiryat Arba settlement.
According to Muhammad Awad, coordinator of the popular committee in Beit Ummar village to the north of al-Khalil, 6 armed settlers assailed Palestinian farmers, including women, in Wadi Safa near the Etzion settlement, to the north, on Sunday evening.
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